Heterophoria

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Noun
  1. 1
    Latent strabismus, which occurs only during dissociation of the left eye and right eye, whereby fusion of the eyes is absent countable, uncountable

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phoria

Etymology

By surface analysis, hetero- + -phore + -ia; from Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + -φορία (-phoría), from φέρειν (phérein, “to bear”).

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