Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Surgical incision of a muscle or tendon of the eye to correct strabismus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, the operation for the cure of squinting by cutting the attachment of a muscle or muscles to the eyeball.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surgery The surgical procedure of cutting or making an
incision in a muscle or tendon of the eye to correctstrabismus , orsquint .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the surgical operation of cutting a muscle or tendon of the eye in order to correct strabismus
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek strabos, squinting; see streb(h)- in Indo-European roots + –tomy.]
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