strabismus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Pronunciation

/stɹəˈbɪzməs/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-strabismus.wav

Word forms

strabismus strabismuses

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).

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.