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).

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

• Catalan: estrabisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斜視／斜视 (zh) (xiéshì), 斜视 (zh) (xiéshì)

• Czech: šilhavost f
• Finnish: karsastus (fi), strabismi (fi)
• French: strabisme (fr) m
• German: Strabismus
• Greek: στραβισμός (el) m (stravismós)
• Hungarian: kancsalság (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: strabeso (io)
• Italian: strabismo (it) m
• Japanese: 斜視 (しゃし, shashi)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: zez (pl) m
• Portuguese: estrabismo (pt) m
• Russian: косогла́зие (ru) n (kosoglázije), страби́зм (ru) m (strabízm)
• Spanish: estrabismo m
• Swedish: skelning (sv) c, strabism (sv) c

Further reading

• strabismus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia