stenopaeic
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek στενός (stenós, “narrow”) (see steno-) + ὀπαῖος (opaîos, “perforated”), from ὀπή (opḗ, “opening”).
Adjective
[edit]stenopaeic (not comparable)
- (optics) Pertaining to a narrow opening or slit in an opaque barrier that restricts the light which reaches the eye.
- 1976 April, Thorkild Bramsen, “Traumatic hyphaema treated with the antifibrinolytic drug tranexamic acid”, in Acta ophthalmologica, volume 54, number 2:
- These patients were selected retrospectively, and only those treated with complete bed-rest and stenopaeic spectacles alone were accepted.
- 2009, Mark Rosenfield, Nicola Logan, Keith H. Edwards, Optometry: Science, Techniques and Clinical Management, →ISBN, page 219:
- Stenopaeic slit refraction is usually attempted when retinoscopy and more conventional subjective refractive techniques, i.e. JCC and FC, fail to provide satisfactory results.
- 2013, F. Crescitelli, The Visual System in Vertebrates, →ISBN, page 680:
- By contrast, the more aquatic sea lion eye is emmetropic in water and depends upon a flattened cornea and stenopaeic aperture for the formation of a good image in air (WALLs, 1942; SCHUSTERMAN, 1972).