Signs and Symptoms
"Cross-eyed" vergence. Arrow indicates accommodation.One eye moves normally, while the other points in (esotropia or "crossed eyes"), out (exotropia), up (hypertropia) or down (hypotropia).
Strabismus is often referred to as "lazy eye", or known as amblyopia. In fact, amblyopia refers to the brain's ignoring input from one eye, which itself can result from discordance in the images provided by the eyes such as occurs in constant unilateral strabismus. It is also referred to as "crossed eyes", “wandering eyes”, or having a “cast”.
"Cross-eyed" means that when a person with strabismus looks at an object, one eye fixes on the object and the other fixes with a convergence angle less than zero; the optic axes overconverge. "Wall-eyed" means that when a person with strabismus looks at an object, one eye fixes on the object and the other fixes with a convergence angle greater than zero; that is, the optic axes diverge from parallel.
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