lazy eye
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lazy eye
n.
See amblyopia.
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lazy eye
Suppression amblyopia Ophthalmology Subnormal visual acuity in the non-dominant eye despite appropriate correction of refractive errors, due to an early visual defect/amblyopia–eg, strabismus, farsightedness, myopia, astigmatism, or cataract; with time, the stronger eye dominates and retains good vision; neural connections between the brain and nondominant eye fail to develop normally, and the brain eventually ignores visual information from that eye; LE vision thus lacks depth perception. See Strabismus.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
laz·y eye
(lā'zē ī)Central suppression of visual impulses from an eye with a severe refractive error or in strabismus.
Synonym(s): amblyopia.
Synonym(s): amblyopia.
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lazy eye
A lay term applied both to an abnormal inturning of the eye (convergent STRABISMUS or esotropia) and to the defect of vision often resulting from untreated squint in young children (AMBLYOPIA).Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005