Strabismus Sentence Examples

Examination of fixation using vertical prisms is useful in diagnosing amblyopia in the absence of strabismus.

An eye doctor (ophthalmologist) needs to determine whether the eye turn is true strabismus or pseudostrabismus.

In the slighter forms no inconvenience may result; but in higher degrees prolonged work is apt to give rise to aching and watering of the eyes, headache, inability to read or sew for any length of time, and even to double vision and internal strabismus.

Eleven patients ultimately required strabismus surgery of whom 8 had manifest strabismus before decompression.

If detected early, strabismus can be corrected by eye exercises, spectacles or - as a last resort - surgery.

Surgery is only one of the ways of treating strabismus; other methods include wearing spectacles and wearing eye patches.

Dr. Kumar from India conducted the 1st hospital based medical training program in Jan 2005 in pediatric strabismus.

I had the strabismus surgery done to straighten my eye 4 years ago.

He wanted to learn more about the vertical adjustments that need to be made in many strabismus cases.

Babies' eyes often turn in or out or do not work together, a condition called strabismus.

There may be other eye problems as well, including poor vision and crossed or "lazy" eyes (strabismus).

They may have problems in coordinating the eyes in fixing and tracking objects (strabismus), which may lead to an appearance of having "crossed eyes" at times.

Crossed eyes (strabismus) can be treated during infancy by using eye patches, surgery, or medicine injections.

Children with retinoblastoma can also have problems seeing and this can cause them to appear cross-eyed (strabismus).

Strabismus is a condition in which the eyes do not align in the same direction.

Young children learn to ignore distorted messages from a misaligned eye, but adults with strabismus often develop double vision (diplopia).

A child who develops strabismus after the age of eight or nine years is said to have adult-onset strabismus.

Esotropia is the most common type of strabismus.

Congenital esotropia is a very rare form of strabismus that occurs with certain birth defects.

Another common form of strabismus is exotropia, sometimes called walleye, where the eyes turn outward.

Other strabismus conditions include hypertrophia, where the eyes turn upward, and hypotropia, where the eyes turn downward.

With strabismus, in some cases the eye turn occurs always in the same eye; however, sometimes the turn alternates from one eye to the other.

Most children with strabismus have comitant strabismus, which means that no matter where they look, the degree of deviation does not change.

In incomitant strabismus, the amount of misalignment depends upon which direction the eyes are pointed.

False strabismus usually disappears as the child's face grows.

Strabismus affects 5 percent of people in the United States or more than 12 million individuals, most of them children.

Strabismus occurs equally in boys and girls and shows no variation in racial or ethnic distribution.

Most strabismus develops in young children, although a few diseases may cause it to develop in adults.

Strabismus can be caused most often by a defect in the part of the brain that controls eye movement.

Diseases that cause partial or total blindness can cause strabismus.

The most obvious symptom of strabismus is an eye that is not always straight.

People who have strabismus often squint in bright sunlight or tilt their heads to focus their eyes.

Strabismus is not a condition that a child will outgrow without medical intervention.

Untreated strabismus can damage vision and possibly result in lazy eye (amblyopia).

Strabismus cannot be prevented, but it can be corrected with early intervention.

Sometimes strabismus does accompany other vision defects, so a complete eye examination by a pediatric ophthalmologist is advisable.

Delay only increases the difficulty in correcting strabismus, so parents should not wait to see if their child outgrows the condition.

Strabismus. A misalignment of the eyes is the most common cause of functional amblyopia.

Strabismus may be diagnosed at birth, or it may develop later in childhood.

Barring the presence of strabismus or ptosis, children may or may not show signs of amblyopia.

Children with nystagmus who have their the null point located at a position in which the eyes are positioned inward may develop an esotropia, a form of strabismus or eye turn.

It is often accompanied by strabismus or an eye turn.

Strabismus is a misalignment of the eyes, in which the two eyes don't move together.

Doctors using it for strabismus and blepharospasm noticed that their patients had fewer wrinkles around the eyes after treatment.