Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Keeping your eyes lined up, in no matter what direction you are looking, is important for stere-oscopic vision.An inability to do it is called stra-bismus (taken directly from the Greek), or colloquially a squint or a cast in the eye. Illnesses in childhood can interferewith the development of the proper alignment. In some cases there is a hereditary element.1 And at any time in life, damage to the ocular nerves ormuscles can do it too. There are twomain types of squint – convergent (esotropia) and divergent (exotropia). In both types the lines of sight of the two eyes deviate. In the former the axes of vision cross; in the latter the non-fixating eye points outwards. The axis of
Authors: Jeffrey K Aronson, Manoj Ramachandran
Institutions: University of Oxford, Barts Health NHS Trust
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2148772914