estrabismo
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Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: es‧tra‧bis‧mo
Noun[edit]
estrabismo m (plural estrabismos)
- (ophthalmology) strabismus; squint (inability to point both eyes to the same point)
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from New Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismós, “(action of) squinting”), from στραβίζω (strabízō, “to squint”), from στραβός (strabós, “squinting, squint-eyed”) (whence the synonymous Latin strabus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *strebʰ-, whence Ancient Greek στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”) and στρεβλός (streblós, “twisted”).
Noun[edit]
estrabismo m (plural estrabismos)
- 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
- strabismus
Further reading[edit]
- “estrabismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- es:Ophthalmology