[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.
cryptophthalmus
(krĭp″tŏf-thăl′mŭs) [″ + ophthalmos, eye] Complete congenital adhesion of the eyelid to the globe of the eye.