STRABISMUS

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) An unnatural obliquity in the axis of the eye, arising from various causes. It may often be, to a great extent, overcome, especially in children, by blindfolding the sound eye, presuming one only to be affected. In very bad cases, especially those of squinting inward, and such are by far the most common, an operation which has lately been introduced is often effectual in greatly relieving the deformity; it consists in dividing the internal rectus muscle of the eyeball, which is done by a proper sci ors without externally wounding the eyelid. [s. 1190]