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estrabismo

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: es‧tra‧bis‧mo

Noun

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estrabismo m (plural estrabismos)

  1. (ophthalmology) strabismus; squint (inability to point both eyes to the same point)

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from New Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismós, (action of) squinting), from στραβίζω (strabízō, to squint), from στραβός (strabós, squinting, squint-eyed) (whence the synonymous Latin strabus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *strebʰ-, whence Ancient Greek στρέφω (stréphō, to twist) and στρεβλός (streblós, twisted).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /estɾaˈbismo/ [es.t̪ɾaˈβ̞iz.mo]
  • Rhymes: -ismo
  • Syllabification: es‧tra‧bis‧mo

Noun

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estrabismo m (plural estrabismos)

  1. strabismus
  2. a defect of vision in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles; a squint

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