cryptophthalmos


cryptophthalmos

 [krip″tof-thal´mos] congenital absence of the palpebral fissure, the skin extending from the forehead to the cheek, with the eyeball malformed or rudimentary. Called also cryptophthalmia and cryptophthalmus.

cryp·toph·thal·mos

, cryptophthalmia (krip'tof-thal'mŭs, -thal'mē-ă), Congenital absence of eyelids, with the skin passing continuously from the forehead onto the cheek over a rudimentary eye. [crypto- + G. ophthalmos, eye]