Archive for the ‘Terminology’ Category
Saturday, February 24th, 2007
It's pretty easy to define Vision Impairment. Just grab your dictionary and look up the words "vision" and "impair."
Vision: The act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
Impair: To make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage.
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Saturday, February 18th, 2006
"Lazy eye" is a term that some strabismus sufferers find offensive. It is often used as a synonym for amblyopia, yet technically these terms are not the same. According to the National Eye Institute, "Amblyopia is the medical term used when the vision in one of the eyes ...
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
Terms related to strabismus include:
Strabismus: Failure of eyes to focus on the same object simultaneously due to eye muscle imbalance
Esotropia: Inward turn of affected eye
Exotropia: Outward turn of affected eye
Hypertropia: Upward turn of affected eye
Hypotropia: Downward turn of affected eye
Phoria: A tendency to tropia (strabismus) in which the misalignment is ...
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