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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
abnormal alignment of one or both eyes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: squint
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: abnormality, abnormalcy
Narrower terms: cross-eye, crossed eye, convergent strabismus, esotropia, walleye, divergent strabismus, exotropia
Borrowed from New Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismós), from στραβίζω (strabízō, “to squint”), from στραβός (strabós, “squinting”) (whence the synonymous Latin strabus).
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
շլություն
(šlutʻyun)
— defect of vision
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Bulgarian:
кривогледство
(krivogledstvo)
— defect of vision
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Catalan:
estrabisme
— defect of vision
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Chinese Mandarin:
斜視 /斜视
(xiéshì)
— defect of vision
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Czech:
šilhavost
— defect of vision
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Esperanto:
strabismo
— defect of vision
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Finnish:
karsastus
— defect of vision
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Finnish:
strabismi
— defect of vision
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French:
strabisme
— defect of vision
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German:
Strabismus
— defect of vision
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Greek:
στραβισμός
(stravismós)
— defect of vision
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Hungarian:
kancsalság
— defect of vision
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Ido:
strabeso
— defect of vision
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Italian:
strabismo
— defect of vision
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Japanese:
斜視
(shashi)
— defect of vision
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Latin:
strabismus
— defect of vision
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Malayalam:
കോങ്കണ്ണ്
(kōṅkaṇṇŭ)
— defect of vision
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Māori:
karu kōrapa
— defect of vision
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Norwegian Bokmål:
skjeling
— defect of vision
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Polish:
zez
— defect of vision
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Portuguese:
estrabismo
— defect of vision
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Russian:
косогла́зие
(kosoglázije)
— defect of vision
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Russian:
страби́зм
(strabízm)
— defect of vision
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Spanish:
estrabismo
— defect of vision
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Swedish:
skelning
— defect of vision
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Swedish:
strabism
— defect of vision
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Tamil:
மாறுகண்
(māṟukaṇ)
— defect of vision
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Turkish:
strabismus
— defect of vision
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Turkish:
şaşılık
— defect of vision
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Ottoman Turkish:
شاشیلق
(şaşılık)
— defect of vision