strabismus

See also: Strabismus

English

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɹəˈbɪzməs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

strabismus (usually uncountable, plural strabismuses)

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.

Synonyms

• cast-eye

Derived terms

• pseudostrabismus
• strabismic
• strabismal

Translations

defect of vision

• Bulgarian: кривогледство n (krivogledstvo)
• Catalan: estrabisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斜視／斜视 (zh) (xiéshì)

• Czech: šilhavost (cs) f
• Esperanto: strabismo
• Finnish: karsastus (fi), strabismi (fi)
• French: strabisme (fr) m
• German: Strabismus m
• Greek: στραβισμός (el) m (stravismós)
• Hungarian: kancsalság (hu)
• Ido: strabeso (io)
• Italian: strabismo (it) m
• Japanese: 斜視 (ja) (しゃし, shashi)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: കോങ്കണ്ണ് (ml) (kōṅkaṇṇŭ)
• Maori: karu kōrapa
• Ottoman Turkish: شاشیلق (şaşılık)
• Polish: zez (pl) m
• Portuguese: estrabismo (pt) m
• Russian: косогла́зие (ru) n (kosoglázije), страби́зм (ru) m (strabízm)
• Spanish: estrabismo (es) m
• Swedish: skelning (sv) c, strabism (sv) c
• Turkish: strabismus, şaşılık (tr)

Further reading

• strabismus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia