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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tendency of the visual axes to fail to meet in the fixation-point, due to weakness of one or more of the ocular muscles or their faulty innervation; insufficiency of the eye-muscles; muscular asthenopia.
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- noun pathology Latent
strabismus , which occurs only duringdissociation of the left eye and right eye, wherebyfusion of the eyes is absent.
Etymologies
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hetero- + -phobia; from Ancient Greek ἕτερος (heteros, "other, another, different") + -φορία (-phoria), from φέρειν ("to bear").
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