heterophoria
English
Etymology
By surface analysis, hetero- + -phore + -ia; from Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + -φορία (-phoría), from φέρειν (phérein, “to bear”).
Noun
heterophoria (countable and uncountable, plural heterophorias)
- (pathology) Latent strabismus, which occurs only during dissociation of the left eye and right eye, whereby fusion of the eyes is absent
Related terms
Translations
a type of eye condition
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Further reading
- “heterophoria”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “heterophoria”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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