Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Insufficiency of the oblique muscles of the eye, producing a tendency to rotation about an anteroposterior axis.

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  • noun A form of strabismus involving a rotating movement of the eye.

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Examples

  • The studes in opthalmology had chopped his inferior oblique eye-muscles in two—and pulled his eyeballs partway out, and stitched his superior recti muscles into new places outward on his eyeballs—for cyclophoria.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

  • The studes in opthalmology had chopped his inferior oblique eye-muscles in two—and pulled his eyeballs partway out, and stitched his superior recti muscles into new places outward on his eyeballs—for cyclophoria.

    Sherlock Holmes on acid Jenny Davidson 2005

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  • Squint due to weakness of an eye muscle. (Luciferous Logolepsy)

    May 18, 2008