Eye problem-name?

[david11]

What do you call this type of eye problem?(When people like at something but the eyes seem to be looking something else.)

[Odessa Dawn]

What do you call this type of eye problem?(When people like at something but the eyes seem to be looking something else.)

***NOT A TEACHER***


I think it is "squint."

[emsr2d2]

I must admit that I was rather surprised by that definition of "squint" which, to me, is when you screw your eyes up small to try to read something or because there is a very bright light.

For me, the child in the picture is "cross-eyed" or "boss-eyed", although admittedly the first usually means that both eyes look in to the centre. He might also be said to have a "lazy eye".

[Rover_KE]

The medical term is strabismus.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

strabismus n

• abnormal alignment of one or both eyes, characterized by a turning inwards or outwards from the nose thus preventing parallel vision: caused by paralysis of an eye muscle, etc
  Also called: squint

Etymology: 17th Century: via New Latin from Greek strabismos, fromstrabizein to squint, from strabos cross-eyed

Rover

[Odessa Dawn]

(When people like at something but the eyes seem to be looking something else.)

Thank you,emsr2d2, so very much for your precious help. I couldn't agree more with your feedback. Your version hit the bull's-eye. Great job! I think that "the eyes seem to be looking something else" is the closet in meaning to "the eyes look in different direction" Correct me, please?

[Tdol]

***NOT A TEACHER***


I think it is "squint."

I would call it a squint. Strabismus is used by specialists.