Meanings
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nounA defect of vision in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles; a squint.
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Origin
- Ancient Greekστραβισμός
- New Latinstrabismus
- Englishstrabismus
Borrowed from New Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismós), from στραβίζω (strabízō, “to squint”), from στραβός (strabós, “squinting”) (whence the synonymous Latin strabus).
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Bulgarian кривогледство
- кривогледство (krivogledstvo)defect of vision
Catalan estrabisme
- estrabismedefect of vision
Chinese Mandarin 斜視 /斜视
- 斜視 /斜视 (xiéshì)defect of vision
Czech šilhavost
- šilhavostdefect of vision
Esperanto strabismo
- strabismodefect of vision
Finnish karsastus, strabismi
- karsastusdefect of vision
- strabismidefect of vision
French strabisme
- strabismedefect of vision
German Strabismus
- Strabismusdefect of vision
Greek στραβισμός
- στραβισμός (stravismós)defect of vision
Hungarian kancsalság
- kancsalságdefect of vision
Italian strabismo
- strabismodefect of vision
Japanese 斜視
- 斜視 (shashi)defect of vision
Latin strabismus
- strabismusdefect of vision
Māori karu kōrapa
- karu kōrapadefect of vision
Norwegian Bokmål skjeling
- skjelingdefect of vision
Polish zez
- zezdefect of vision
Portuguese estrabismo
- estrabismodefect of vision
Russian косогла́зие, страби́зм
- косогла́зие (kosoglázije)defect of vision
- страби́зм (strabízm)defect of vision
Spanish estrabismo
- estrabismodefect of vision
Swedish skelning, strabism
- skelningdefect of vision
- strabismdefect of vision
Tamil மாறுகண்
- மாறுகண் (māṟukaṇ)defect of vision
Turkish strabismus, şaşılık
- strabismusdefect of vision
- şaşılıkdefect of vision
Ukrainian косоокість
- косоокість (kosoókistʹ)defect of vision
Cite this entry
strabismus. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strabismus
“strabismus.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strabismus. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “strabismus,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strabismus.
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