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Crosseye.

Strabismic.

Squinting; cross-eye.

Want of concordance of the optic axes. It may he dependent upon natural or acquired inequality in the action of the motor muscles of the eye; on a convulsive state of one of those muscles; a difference in the sensibility of the two eyes; or a cerebral affection. In the treatment, if the disease seem to depend upon an excess of strength in one of the motor muscles we must endeavour to give tone to that which is too weak, by placing before the eye a mask having a small aperture on the side to which it is necessary to direct the pupil; or by wearing glasses, provided with a piece of looking-glass, on the side to which the eye is vitiously turned; so that the reflection may be inconvenient, and occasion the organ to be turned in an opposite direction; or by putting a black patch on the angle opposite to that to which the eye is turned. If owing to weakness, the organ must be strengthened by being exerted alone, and by leaving the other at rest. If the disease be symptomatic of cerebral affection, attention must, of course, be directed to the latter. Strabismus may be single, or affect one eye only, or double, and it may he convergent or divergent. Those affected with Strabismus are called Strabi, Strabones, Straboni, Strebli, Hli, Illides, Squintere, Squint-eyed, (Sc.) Gleyed, (F.)Louches, Bigles. A slight deviation is generally called a Cast in the Eye, and, sometimes, a Cock-eye.

A squint; deviation of one or both of the eyes.

Squinting, cross-eye; an inability to bring the visual axes of both eyes to bear simultaneously on one point, the axis of vision of one eye always deviating in a certain direction from the object.