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Definition of Crossed eye
1. Noun. Strabismus in which one or both eyes turn inward toward the nose.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crossed Eye
Literary usage of Crossed eye
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Health Work in the Schools by Ernest Bryant Hoag, Lewis Madison Terman (1914)
"He replies that he cannot see it, and I notice that he is troubled with what is
technically called "squint eye," or crossed eye. Let us ask him if he ever ..."
2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"And a few clinical cases have been recorded in which disease, especially of the
angular gyrus, seemed to affect the vision of the whole of the crossed eye. ..."
3. The Chicago Medical Journal (1866)
"... eye be covered with the hand, the "crossed" eye can be fixed upon the object.
... on covering an eye already fixed upon an object, the " crossed" eye ..."
4. Health and Medical Inspection of School Children by Walter Stewart Cornell (1912)
"The most common form is internal squint, or "crossed eye," in which the eye is
turned in toward the nose. There is also external squint, and more rarely ..."
5. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"... and that the crossed eye, the eye of the same side not being, or being supposed
not to be, at all affected ; and indeed similar results have also been ..."
6. Diseases of the Eye by Lawrance Webster Fox (1904)
"... remedy the condition for cosmetic purposes, both patient and his friends being
woefully ignorant of the reduction of visual acuity in the "crossed" eye. ..."
7. Hygiene of the Eye by William Campbell Posey (1918)
"Squint, therefore, not only disfigures, but actually disables, impairing the
vision of the crossed eye. Too much emphasis cannot be laid, therefore, ..."
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