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Answer for the clue "Abnormal alignment of one or both eyes ", 10 letters:
strabismus

Word definitions for strabismus in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A defect of vision in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles; a squint.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strabismus \Stra*bis"mus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to squint, fr. ? distorted, squinting.] (Med.) An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Strabismus is a condition in which the eyes do not properly align with each other. This interferes with binocular vision because it prevents a person from directing both eyes simultaneously towards the same fixation point . It also typically affects depth ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. abnormal alignment of one or both eyes [syn: squint ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a squinting," 1680s, medical Latin, from Greek strabismos , from strabizein "to squint," from strabos "squinting, squint-eyed," related to strobos "a whirling round," from PIE *streb(h)- "to wind, turn" (see strophe ). Earlier in anglicized form strabism ...

Usage examples of strabismus.

Angell and Elsner in March, 1895, reported a case of anencephaly, or rather pseudencephaly, associated with double divergent strabismus and limbs in a state of constant spastic contraction.

Eyes show strabismus and nystagmus, also arteriovenous nicking and silver-wiring.

Strabismus drew the diagrams but used the newfangled appliqué alphabets printed on transparent cellophane for the lettering.

It is like strabismus, chloroform, lithotrity, a heap of monstrosities that the Government ought to prohibit.

Strabismus might possess to enable him to seduce her mother so outrageously, but in mid-July the world-famous scientist, as his brochures described him, came personally to Clay to solicit further funds for the impending plenary session of the Visitors, the one which would determine pretty much how the United States would be governed after the takeover.

The nation, as if surfeited with the marvels of space and medicine and science and sophisticated social analysis, seemed hungry for anti-intellectual preachment, and Leopold Strabismus was eager to provide it.

In the United States it is used to treat two rare eye conditions, blepharospasm and strabismus, both of which involve excessive muscle contractions.

Leopold Strabismus, president of Universal Space Associates and chancellor of the University of Space and Aviation, for he knew in his bones that massive changes were under way in American life and that space was only a fragment of the whole.

Ancestors of Mott and Strabismus had chosen opposing sides in Assyria and at Stonehenge.

Strabismus might possess to enable him to seduce her mother so outrageously, but in mid-July the world-famous scientist, as his brochures described him, came personally to Clay to solicit further funds for the impending plenary session of the Visitors, the one which would determine pretty much how the United States would be governed after the takeover.

Wise science teachers, sensing the shift in public opinion, accorded more time and emphasis to creationism, as they called it, than to the much-ridiculed theory of evolution, and a generation of California students was beginning to believe that Darwinism was a fraud perpetrated by atheistic humanists, because Reverend Strabismus and the other preachers who shared his television show said so.

America was going to make an ass of itself in the eyes of the world if it engaged in a know-nothing persecution of science, and they had begun to make some headway when Strabismus and a score of his associates launched a frontal assault, charging the professors with being atheistic humanists and Communists.

When the unnamed girl sitting in the corner had been picked up near Archbold, a sixteen-year-old girl with strabismus had been shot and left in a ditch.

The Staffordshire dogs in the breakfast room were good examples of concomitant convergent strabismus.

Strabismus in her sultriest manner, as if to say: “I know you’re a fraud, an outrageous fraud, and if I had you alone for two minutes, I’d have your pants down.