STRABISMUS

[stra.bis.mus] n [NL, fr. Gk strabismos condition of squinting, fr. strabizein to squint, fr. strabos squint-eyed; akin to Gk strephein to twist] (ca. 1684): inability of one eye to attain binocular vision with the other because of imbalance of the muscles of the eyeball--called also squint -- stra.bis.mic adj