单词 | strabismus |
释义 | strabismusn. Pathology. a. An affection of the eyes in which the axes of vision cannot be coincidently directed to the same object; squinting, a squint. convergent or internal strabismus, a turning inward of the eyes, cross-eye n.; divergent or external strabismus, a turning outwards of one or both eyes. ΘΚΠ 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 1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 269 Strabismus, Squinting, is occasioned by the Relaxation, Contraction, Distorsion, too great Length, or too great Shortness of the Muscles which move the Eye. 1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 155/1 A Strabismus, commonly called squinting. 1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 294 For external strabismus, a flap of the internal portion of the conjunctiva is removed. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. viii. 342 Convergent strabismus is the most common of all. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. viii. 342 Divergent strabismus is usually the result of myopia. b. figurative. Perversity of intellectual perception. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > [noun] forejudging1571 preoccupation1572 prejudicateness1603 prejudicacy1608 forestalment1611 prepossession1638 anticipation1640 prejudice1643 biasedness1667 prevention1671 engagement1689 prejudgement1799 strabismus1844 parti pris1860 1844 H. Rogers Ess. (1860) III. 111 His prejudices have wholly clouded his common sense, or produced an incurable strabismus of intellect. 1846 H. Rogers Ess. (1874) I. iv. 198 Any one..not afflicted with polemical strabismus, would as soon affirm that [etc.]. 1881 E. Caird Ess. Lit. & Philos. (1892) I. 193 A review which supposes man to be afflicted with a kind of intellectual strabismus, so that he can never see with one of his mental eyes without shutting the other. c. attributive. ΚΠ 1864 Lancet 17 Dec. 689/2 The Strabismus operation made easy. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Strabismus-forceps, a straight or curved pinchers..for holding the muscles to be divided in correcting strabismus. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. viii. 344 Strabismus hook. Strabismus scissors. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1684 |
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