strabismn.
/ˈstreɪbɪz(ə)m/ = strabismus n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > squinting or cross-eyes
cast1505
squint-eyedness1591
squinting1626
squinta1652
squintness1656
strabism1656
strabismus1684
cockeye1738
goggle-eye1822
nystagmus1822
cross-eyes1826
cross-eyedness1846
anorthopia1849
heterophthalmy1854
hyperphoria1881
heterophoria1886
hypertropia1897
intorsion1899
hypophoria1932
prairie squint1937
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Strabism..the squintness in the eyes.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Strabisme, a looking a squint.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 417 The strabisme, or squintnesse, caused, by evil conformation, custome, or disease.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Strabism, a squinting; act of looking asquint.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 157 Hence proceeds that aukward look which is known by the name of strabism.
1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 526 Perfectly formed eyes have little inducement to wander into habits of strabism.
1914 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 507 Some Spanish critics have lately attributed the defects in his [El Greco's] drawing to strabism and astigmatism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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