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Definition of Diplopia
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 Diplopia
1. n. The act or state of seeing double.
Definition of Diplopia
1. Noun. (pathology) An ophthalmologic condition where one perceives two images; double vision. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diplopia
1. double vision [n -S] : DIPLOPIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Diplopia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Diplopia
Literary usage of Diplopia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"If the diplopia is mainly vertical and this vertical diplopia increases fast in
... If then the vertical diplopia increases most in looking up and to the ..."
2. Diseases of the eye by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"(6) Vertical diplopia increases in looking up and to the left ... diplopia right (ie,
image of left eye above): Paralysis of left superior rectus. ..."
3. Refraction and how to refract: Including Sections on Optics, Retinoscopy by James Thorington (1907)
"This condition of the objects is spoken of as heter- onymous or crossed diplopia.
Hy perp horia (Greek, "Kep, over, above; <p«p£iv, to tend). ..."
4. Diseases and injuries of the eye: their medical and surgical treatment by George Lawson (1880)
"diplopia, or double vision, is produced by any cause which prevents the optic
axes from ... The existence of diplopia of course implies that the patient has ..."
5. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye by John Soelberg Wells, Charles Stedman Bull (1880)
"Double images (diplopia).—An object only appears single when both visual ...
The slightest degree of diplopia is that in which the double images are not ..."
6. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"Nothing positive is known as to the cause of uniocular diplopia. ... All that
can be done for uniocular diplopia, is to use the palliative ..."
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