释义 |
Wall-eye
Wall´-eye`
n. | 1. | An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; - said usually of horses. | | 2. | (Zool.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; - called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch. |
wall-eye
wall-eye (wawl'ī), 1. Synonym(s): exotropia2. Absence of color in the iris, or leukoma of the cornea. wall-eye (1) External strabismus, exotropia. (2) An obsolete term for any “whitening”—e.g., absence of colour in the iris, leukoma (of the cornea).ex·o·tro·pi·a (ek'sō-trō'pē-ă) That type of strabismus in which the visual axes diverge; may be paralytic or concomitant, monocular or alternating, constant or intermittent. Synonym(s): divergent strabismus, exodeviation (2) , wall-eye. [exo- + G. tropē, turn]ThesaurusSeeexotropia |