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S0686200 (skwĭnt)v. squint·ed, squint·ing, squints v.intr.1. To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight.2. a. To look or glance sideways.b. To look askance, as in disapproval.3. To have an indirect reference or inclination.4. To be affected with strabismus.v.tr.1. To cause to squint.2. To close (the eyes) partly while looking.n.1. The act or an instance of squinting.2. a. A sideways glance.b. A quick look or glance: Take a squint at this view.3. An oblique reference or inclination.4. See strabismus.5. A hagioscope.adj.1. Looking obliquely or askance.2. Squint-eyed.

[Short for asquint.]

squint′er n.squint′y adj.

squint

(skwɪnt) vb1. (Physiology) (usually intr) to cross or partly close (the eyes)2. (Pathology) (intr) to have a squint3. (intr) to look or glance sideways or askancen4. (Pathology) the nontechnical name for strabismus5. the act or an instance of squinting; glimpse6. (Architecture) Also called: hagioscope a narrow oblique opening in a wall or pillar of a church to permit a view of the main altar from a side aisle or transept7. informal a quick look; glanceadj8. (Pathology) having a squint9. informal crooked; askew[C14: short for asquint] ˈsquinter n ˈsquinty adj

squint

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v.i. 1. to look with the eyes partly closed. 2. to be affected with strabismus; be cross-eyed. 3. to look or glance obliquely or sidewise; look askance. 4. to make or have an indirect reference or bearing (usu. fol. by toward, at, etc.). v.t. 5. to cause to squint. n. 6. an act or instance of squinting. 7. a condition of the eye consisting in noncoincidence of the optic axes; strabismus. 8. a quick glance. 9. an indirect reference, inclination, or tendency. 10. Also called hagioscope. (in a church) a small opening in a wall giving a view of the altar. adj. 11. looking obliquely or with a side glance; looking askance. 12. (of the eyes) affected with strabismus. [1350–1400; Middle English; aph. variant of asquint to one side, askance] squint′er, n. squint′ing•ly, adv. squint′y, adj.

squint

- Short for the obsolete asquint, which may have come from Dutch schuin, "sideways, sloping."See also related terms for sloping.

squint

Past participle: squinted
Gerund: squinting

Imperative
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Present
I squint
you squint
he/she/it squints
we squint
you squint
they squint

Preterite
I squinted
you squinted
he/she/it squinted
we squinted
you squinted
they squinted

Present Continuous
I am squinting
you are squinting
he/she/it is squinting
we are squinting
you are squinting
they are squinting

Present Perfect
I have squinted
you have squinted
he/she/it has squinted
we have squinted
you have squinted
they have squinted

Past Continuous
I was squinting
you were squinting
he/she/it was squinting
we were squinting
you were squinting
they were squinting

Past Perfect
I had squinted
you had squinted
he/she/it had squinted
we had squinted
you had squinted
they had squinted

Future
I will squint
you will squint
he/she/it will squint
we will squint
you will squint
they will squint

Future Perfect
I will have squinted
you will have squinted
he/she/it will have squinted
we will have squinted
you will have squinted
they will have squinted

Future Continuous
I will be squinting
you will be squinting
he/she/it will be squinting
we will be squinting
you will be squinting
they will be squinting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been squinting
you have been squinting
he/she/it has been squinting
we have been squinting
you have been squinting
they have been squinting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been squinting
you will have been squinting
he/she/it will have been squinting
we will have been squinting
you will have been squinting
they will have been squinting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been squinting
you had been squinting
he/she/it had been squinting
we had been squinting
you had been squinting
they had been squinting

Conditional
I would squint
you would squint
he/she/it would squint
we would squint
you would squint
they would squint

Past Conditional
I would have squinted
you would have squinted
he/she/it would have squinted
we would have squinted
you would have squinted
they would have squinted

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	squint - abnormal alignment of one or both eyesstrabismusabnormalcy, abnormality - an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficienciesconvergent strabismus, crossed eye, cross-eye, esotropia - strabismus in which one or both eyes turn inward toward the nosedivergent strabismus, exotropia, walleye - strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward
	2.	squint - the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closedlooking, looking at, look - the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; "he went out to have a look"; "his look was fixed on her eyes"; "he gave it a good looking at"; "his camera does his looking for him"
Verb	1.	squint - cross one's eyes as if in strabismus; "The children squinted so as to scare each other"squinchgrimace, make a face, pull a face - contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state; "He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do"
	2.	squint - be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismuslook - perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; "She looked over the expanse of land"; "Look at your child!"; "Look--a deer in the backyard!"
	3.	squint - partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light; "The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield"look - have a certain outward or facial expression; "How does she look?"; "The child looks unhappy"; "She looked pale after the surgery"
Adj.	1.	squint - (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong glances"askance, askant, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squintyindirect - not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination; "sometimes taking an indirect path saves time"; "you must take an indirect course in sailing"

squint

verb1. peer, screw up your eyes, narrow your eyes, look through narrowed eyes The girl squinted at the photograph.noun1. cross eyes, strabismus she had a bad squint in her right eye2. look, glimpse, peek, glance, butcher's (Brit. slang), gander (informal), look-see (slang), shufti (Brit. slang) (informal) They have waited a long time to have a squint inside my lovely shed.

squint

verb1. To peer with the eyes partly closed:squinch.Idiom: screw up one's eyes.2. To have a tendency or inclination:incline, lean, slant, tend, trend.noun1. An inclination to something:bent, bias, cast, disposition, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, tendency, trend, turn.2. The condition of not having the visual axes parallel:cross-eye, strabismus.

Translations

一瞧斜地斜的斜眼斜置地

squint

(skwint) verb1. to have the physical defect of having the eyes turning towards or away from each other or to cause the eyes to do this. The child squints; You squint when you look down at your nose.斜视2. (with at, ~up at, ~through etc) to look with half-shut or narrowed eyes. He squinted through the telescope.眯眼看 noun1. a squinting position of the eyes. an eye-operation to correct her squint.斜眼2. a glance or look at something. Let me have a squint at that photograph.一瞧 adjective, adverb (placed etc) crookedly or not straight. Your hat is squint. 斜（置）的

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strabismus

[strah-biz´mus] deviation of the eye that the patient cannot overcome; the visual axes assume a position relative to each other different from that required by the physiological conditions. Called also squint. adj., adj strabis´mic. The various forms of strabismus are spoken of as tropias, their direction being indicated by the appropriate prefix, as cyclotropia, esotropia, exotropia, hypertropia, and hypotropia.
During the first 3 to 6 months of life, the eyes of infants tend to waver and turn either inward or outward independently of one another; this usually corrects itself. If it persists, or if the eyes are continually crossed in the same way, even if the child is less than 6 months old, it may be a sign of strabismus. Children do not outgrow strabismus. In an older child, a tendency to tilt the head when reading, or to close or rub one eye, may indicate strabismus.
Strabismus almost always appears at an early age. If not corrected, the condition may impair vision in the nonfocusing eye, as well as marring the child's appearance. In the great majority of cases the eyes can be straightened by proper medical treatment at any age, but vision of the malfunctioning eye may remain impaired. If treated early enough, preferably before 6 years, normal vision can usually be restored in the affected eye.Cause. Strabismus may result from several factors, including a blow on the head, disease, or heredity. Many cases are caused by a malfunction of the muscles that move the eyes. This causes the eyes to focus differently, sending different images to the brain. As the child grows, he or she learns to ignore the image from one eye with the result that it fails to grow as strong as the eye on which he or she is depending.Treatment. Treatment for strabismus varies with the individual case. A patch may be placed over the child's stronger eye for a period, forcing use of the weaker eye and thus restoring its strength as far as possible, instead of letting it grow worse from lack of use. Eyeglasses or special eye exercises may correct the condition. In some cases, a relatively simple surgical operation on the eye muscles may be necessary. Since these muscles are outside the eye itself, there is no danger to the vision.comitant strabismus (concomitant strabismus) that in which the angle of deviation of the visual axis of the squinting eye is always the same in relation to the other eye, no matter what the direction of the gaze; due to faulty insertion of the eye muscles.convergent strabismus esotropia.divergent strabismus exotropia.noncomitant strabismus (nonconcomitant strabismus) that in which the amount of deviation of the squinting eye varies according to the direction in which the eyes are turned.vertical strabismus that in which the visual axis of the squinting eye deviates in the vertical plane; see hypertropia and hypotropia.

squint

(skwint), 1. Synonym(s): strabismus2. To suffer from strabismus.

squint

(skwĭnt)v. squinted, squinting, squints v.intr.1. To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight.2. To be affected with strabismus.n.1. The act or an instance of squinting.2. See strabismus.

squint′er n.squint′y adj.

strabismus

Nonparallel positioning or movement of the eyes—usually of the vertical axis—due to decreased binocular muscle coordination with loss of stereoscopic vision and inability to focus simultaneously on a single point.

Aetiology
Extraocular muscle defects, neurotoxins, blindness, mechanical defects, unilateral vision obstruction in childhood, various brain disorders or systemic diseases, amblyopia, paralytic shellfish poisoning, botulism, haemangioma near eye, Guillain-Barré syndrome, Apert syndrome, Noonan syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, trisomy 18, congenital rubella, incontinentia pigmenti, cerebral palsy, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, pseudohyperparathyroidism.

squint

Ophthalmology See Strabismus Vox populi The closing of orbicular muscles to examine a distant object.

squint

(skwint) 1. Synonym(s): strabismus. 2. To narrow the interpalpebral openings of the eyelids to block light or improve focus.

squint

See STRABISMUS.

strabismus

The condition in which the lines of sight of the two eyes are not directed towards the same fixation point when the subject is actively fixating an object. Thus the image of the fixation point is not formed on the fovea of the deviated eye and there may be diplopia, although in most cases the diplopic image is suppressed and vision is essentially monocular. The prevalence of concomitant strabismus in children is 2%-5% and is far more common than paretic strabismus. Management depends on the type of strabismus. However, in all cases the refractive errors must be accurately corrected. If the deviation still prevails, orthoptics and, sometimes, pharmacological (e.g. miotics in accommodative esotropia) treatment is attempted but in many cases surgery is necessary (except where accommodation is faulty or when the deviation is small), usually followed by some orthoptics treatment aimed at developing fusion and stereopsis. Syn. heterotropia; squint (this term is commonly used by the general public); tropia. See angle of anomaly; angle of strabismus; botulinum toxin; chemodenervation; deviating eye; fixating eye; hypertropia; Bruckner's method; Hirschberg's method; Javal's method; Krimsky's method; microtropia; phi movement; zero point; past- pointing; abnormal retinal correspondence; suppression; Apert's syndrome; Brown's superior oblique tendon sheath syndrome; Crouzon's syndrome; Duane's syndrome; Marfan's syndrome; cover test; three-step test; theories of strabismus.
accommodative strabismus Convergent strabismus resulting from abnormal demand on accommodation due to an uncorrected hyperopia accompanied by excessive convergence and insufficient relative fusional divergence. The AC/A ratio (accommodative convergence to accommodation) is normal but the child has high hyperopia (refractive accommodative esotropia). It may also occur in cases in which the AC/A ratio is high and accommodation is accompanied by excessive convergence in a child with a very small amount of hyperopia (non-refractive accommodative esotropia). Accommodative strabismus is usually an acquired deviation first presenting in the first decade of life. Children do not usually notice diplopia, but instead develop suppression and later amblyopia. Management consists of full hyperopic correction and amblyopia treatment. Syn. accommodative esotropia. See cycloplegic refraction; acquired non-accommodative strabismus.
acquired strabismus An abnormal alignment of the visual axes that occurs after the age of six months.
acquired non-accommodative strabismus Convergent strabismus that presents after normal ocular alignment has been established and is not related to a subject's accommodative effort. Treatment is usually surgical. Syn. acquired non-accommodative esotropia.
alternating strabismus Strabismus in which either eye may deviate. See unilateral strabismus.
angle of strabismus See angle of deviation.
apparent strabismus Condition simulating the appearance of strabismus. It may be due to epicanthus, to an abnormally large angle lambda (or kappa), or to the breadth of the nose, etc. It can be distinguished from a real strabismus by noting that the corneal light reflexes are centrally located in relation to the pupils, or by means of the cover test. Syn. pseudostrabismus.
comitant strabismus See concomitant strabismus.
concomitant strabismus Strabismus in which the angle of deviation remains the same whichever eye is fixating and in whichever direction the eyes are looking. Syn. comitant strabismus. See concomitance; incomitant strabismus.
congenital strabismus See infantile strabismus.
consecutive strabismus A deviation of the eye in the opposite direction to what it was previously. This condition may follow surgery although it may occur spontaneously. There are two types: consecutive exotropia in a patient who previously had esotropia or esophoria and consecutive esotropia in a patient who previously had exotropia or exophoria. Syn. postoperative over-correction. See divergent strabismus.
convergent strabismus Strabismus in which the deviating eye turns inward. This is the most common type of strabismus in children. The principal categories are accommodative strabismus and non-accommodative strabismus (Fig. S15). Syn. crossed eyes (colloquial); esotropia (SOT, ET, esoT). See A pattern; V pattern; Swann's syndrome; prism adaptation test.
cyclic strabismus A very rare and unusual form of strabismus occurring on a 48-hour rhythm in which a 24-hour period of normal binocular vision is followed by 24 hours of manifest heterotropia. The condition, which may have started in early infancy, only becomes apparent during early childhood. With time, cyclic heterotropia tends to become constant. Syn. cyclic heterotropia.
deorsumvergens strabismus See hypertropia.
divergent strabismus Strabismus in which the deviating eye turns outward (Fig. S15). Syn. exotropia (XOT; XT; exoT). The principal categories are constant exotropia and intermittent exotropia. Constant exotropia may be congenital which is often associated with an underlying neurological anomaly or basic which appears after six months of age with equal exotropia for near and distance vision. Both types are usually treated surgically. Consecutive strabismus can also be a constant exotropia. Intermittent exotropia is the most common form of exotropia. It begins as an exophoria and breaks down to exotropia presenting in children between two and five years of age. It is characterized by worse exotropia at near (convergence excess) or worse exotropia at distance (divergence excess). Treatment includes spectacle correction, orthoptic exercises or surgery. See A pattern; V pattern.
strabismus fixus A rare, congenital condition in which one or both eyes are firmly fixed in a position of extreme adduction or abduction, although the most common position is adduction (esotropia). It is due to an anatomical anomaly (e.g. anomalous insertion of the medial or lateral rectus muscle), or muscle fibrosis (e.g. of the two medial recti muscle in esotropia). Voluntary movements of duction and version, as well as passive movements as in the forced duction test, are either absent or insignificant. See forced duction test.
incomitant strabismus Strabismus in which the angle of deviation varies with the direction of gaze and with the eye used for fixation. It may be congenital or acquired. The congenital type is due to some developmental anomaly of one or more of the extraocular muscles or of the neural component that serves them. The acquired type may be due to head injury, disease of the oculomotor system, or systemic disease (e.g. multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, thyroid eye disease, aneurysms). The main symptom of incomitant strabismus is diplopia and it suddenly appears in the acquired type. Abnormal head posture and past-pointing may be present. The affected muscle(s) may be detected by the motility test. Treatment is aimed first at the primary cause but, in general, this type of strabismus does not respond well to orthoptic procedures. In large deviation, surgery is usually the only remedy. Syn. nonconcomitant strabismus. See abnormal head posture; incomitance; pointing past-; Hess screen; paralytic strabismus; motility test.
infantile strabismus Strabismus which becomes manifest within the first year of life. It is almost always esotropic in nature: exotropia, which is very rare, is usually associated with some neurological condition. Infantile strabismus is characterized by a large angle of squint, hyperopia, alternate fixation that may become unilateral if amblyopia develops, and nystagmus. Management is essentially surgical after correction of the refractive error. A complication following surgery may be dissociated vertical deviation. Syn. congenital strabismus; infantile esotropia syndrome. See cross-fixation.
intermittent strabismus Strabismus that is not present at all times.
monocular strabismus See unilateral strabismus.
non-accommodative strabismus Convergent strabismus not due to abnormal demands on accommodation. There are several types: infantile strabismus, acquired non-accommodative strabismus, basic esotropia (no significant hyperopia and the deviation is equal for near and distance), microtropia, convergence excess (esotropia for near vision but not for distance), divergence insufficiency (esotropia for distance vision but not for near), consecutive strabismus, sensory strabismus and cyclic esotropia (periodic manifestation of esotropia as for example on alternate days). Treatment of associated amblyopia and correction of hyperopia are often followed by surgery.
nonconcomitant strabismus See incomitant strabismus.
paralytic strabismus Strabismus due to a paralysis of the extraocular muscles. It usually gives rise to incomitance. The paralysis is usually due to a disorder of the third, fourth or sixth cranial nerve. Diplopia is noticed if the paralysis is recent and it is usually accompanied by an abnormal head posture. In most cases there is not a complete loss of action of a muscle but a partial loss and the condition is referred to as paretic strabismus, whether it is congenital or acquired. Orthoptic treatment is very limited in these cases and is not normally appropriate if the deviation was caused by injury or a recent disease. Cosmetic surgery is often necessary. See abnormal head posture; incomitance; paralysis of the fourth nerve; paralysis of the sixth nerve; paralysis of the third nerve; motility test.
periodic strabismus Strabismus in which the deviation occurs only at certain distances or in certain directions of fixation. Syn. relative strabismus.
relative strabismus See periodic strabismus.
secondary s . Strabismus resulting from a sensory deficit, surgical intervention, tumour, trauma or stroke. See consecutive strabismus; sensory strabismus.
sensory strabismus Strabismus caused by a unilateral reduction in visual acuity which disrupts binocular vision, such as unilateral cataract, optic atrophy, uncorrected anisometropia or other unilateral visual impairments.
small angle strabismus See microtropia.
strabismus surgery See myectomy; myotomy; Faden procedure; tuck procedure; recession; resection; transposition.
sursumvergens strabismus See hypertropia.
unilateral strabismus Strabismus in which the deviating eye is always the same, as distinguished from alternating strabismus. Syn. monocular strabismus.

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Fig. S15 A, left convergent strabismus; B, left divergent strabismus; C, left hypertropia; D, left hypotropia

stra·bis·mus

(stră-biz'mŭs) [MIM*185100] A manifest lack of parallelism of the visual axes of the eyes.
Synonym(s): crossed eyes, heterotropia, squint (1) . [Mod. L., fr. G. strabismos, a squinting]

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Synonyms for squint

verb peer

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noun cross eyes

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noun look

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verb to peer with the eyes partly closed

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verb to have a tendency or inclination

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noun an inclination to something

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noun the condition of not having the visual axes parallel

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noun abnormal alignment of one or both eyes

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noun the act of squinting

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verb cross one's eyes as if in strabismus

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verb be cross-eyed

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verb partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light

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adj (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy

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