n.
A visual defect in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles. Also called squint.
[New Latin, from Greek strabismos, condition of squinting, from strabizein, to squint, from strabos, squinting.]
strabismal stra·bis'mal (-məl) or stra·bis'mic (-mĭk) adj.
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