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Strabismus

//stɹəˈbɪzməs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    abnormal alignment of one or both eyes wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismós), from στραβίζω (strabízō, “to squint”), from στραβός (strabós, “squinting”) (whence the synonymous Latin strabus).

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