Re: Word or expression for a condition of the eyes?

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:52:29 GMT, Tina <nohee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>I read a description in a novel describing a character as having
>misaligned eyes, also known as a lazy eye. It was a single word or
>very short phrase (possibly hypenated), and maybe now considered
>"archaic," I don't know. I had to look it up at the time, and now I've
>forgotten what it was, or where I read it.
>

I don't think of a person with lazy eye to have misaligned eyes.
Misaligned, to me, would be one eye socket higher than the other.
A person with amblyopia has eyes that do not focus on same point.

They don't focus on the same point because the cast eye is the "lazy
eye".
--


Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL
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