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estrabismo

estrabismo

Portuguese

Noun

estrabismo m (plural estrabismos)

  1. (ophthalmology) strabismus; squint (inability to point both eyes to the same point)

Spanish

Etymology

From Modern Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismós), from στραβίζω (strabízō, to squint), from στραβός (strabós) (strabos, “squinting”; whence the synonymous Latin strabus), from Proto-Indo-European *strab(h).

Noun

estrabismo m (plural estrabismos)

  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.
  2. strabismus