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Definition of Double vision
1. Noun. Visual impairment in which an object is seen as two objects. "Diplopia often disappears when one eye is covered"
Generic synonyms: Vision Defect, Visual Defect, Visual Disorder, Visual Impairment
Definition of Double vision
1. Noun. a disorder of vision, (diplopia), in which a single object is seen as two ¹
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Medical Definition of Double vision
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Vision
Literary usage of Double vision
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"To examine how far the Circumstances of single and double Vision are agreeable
to the Doctrine of Association. Let us now inquire into the fallacies which ..."
2. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"Binocular single vision is converted into binocular double vision when one of the
... Finally, double vision ensues whenever the excursions of one eye are ..."
3. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"The conditions on which single vision, as well as natural double vision with the
two eyes depends, having been premised, we are prepared to enter upon the ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Reid, D.D.: Now Fully Collected, with Selections from by Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Dugald Stewart (1863)
"Dr Briggs, in his " Nova Visionis Theo- ria," having collected from authors
several instances of double vision, quotes this from ..."
5. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1866)
"Most of the simulators, imagining that we are dealing merely with the sound eye,
at once acknowledge double vision, and in this manner I have several times ..."
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