strabismus
noun/strəˈbɪzməs/
/strəˈbɪzməs/
[uncountable] (medical)- the condition of having a squint (= when one eye looks in a different direction from the other)Word Originlate 17th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek strabismos, from strabizein ‘to squint’, from strabos ‘squinting’.
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