(v. i.) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
(adv.) Asquint; askance; obliquely.
Example Sentences:
(1) In three profiles of a semi-gley soil under the floodplain forest, variations were studied in the activities of invertase, amylase, cellobiase, cellulase, proteases, and phosphatases.
(2) In temperate climates, trace element mobilization is greatest when weathering takes place under conditions of impeded pedological drainage, leading to the formation of gleyed soils.
(3) In total 30 nitrogen-fixing, saccharolytic Clostridia and 4 nitrogen-fixing bacilli, all freshly isolated from gleyed soils, were screened for sensitivity to 20 antibiotics.
(4) In the 1890s Gley found that tetany after thyroidectomy was due to removal of the parathyroids.
Squint
Definition:
(a.) Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
(n.) Fig.: Looking askance.
(v. i.) To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
(v. i.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.
(v. i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
(v. t.) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
(v. t.) To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
(n.) The act or habit of squinting.
(n.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
(n.) Same as Hagioscope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Squint was the most common diagnosis with the prevalence being 18.4 per thousand for the children in social classes I to III and 15.9 for the total series.
(2) Indeed this procedure is the only one which can act in a fitted manner on muscular spasms responsible of more than 60% of convergent squints.
(3) In this group refractive error, nasolacrimal duct block, and primary squint were most common, while in the non-heritable group various types of conjunctivitis, trauma, foreign bodies, blepharitis and nutritional diseases were most prevalent.
(4) The presence of +2.00 or more D of spherical hypermetropia in both eyes, or +1.00 or more D sphere or cylinder of anisometropia was significantly associated (P=0.0779%) with that child being identified 2+ years later as having either squint or amblyopia or both.
(5) The present squint angle was the only major parameter relevant for the preservation of PS and MS.
(6) Both the AO and the Siamese cats exhibited a convergent squint.
(7) All the cases of squint and amblyopia referred to both hospital and school clinics in one district during one calendar year have been reviewed in order to clarify when, where, and how these cases first present to the ophthalmologist.
(8) Clinical signs in mice were squinting and distended testes in males, and in rats, rapid respiration (all doses), squinting, and hunching.
(9) The most frequent indications are: Increased objective squint angle during near fixation, incomitant binocular movements in the horizontal plane, unstabile objective angles, nystagmus compensation (block-) syndrome, variation of Kestenbaum's nystagmusoperation.
(10) The most important squints to diagnose are the concomitant squints of childhood as they can lead to amblyopia, which is irreversible after the age of ten years.
(11) In all patients was found a very marked impairment of visual acuity or even blindness of the affected eye with most frequently squint and nystagmus.
(12) On the basis of our investigation we could not prove the process of emmetropisation during the growth of the eyes of squinting children in this age group.
(13) Anterior segment circulation was assessed in 35 adults one day after squint surgery by clinical observation and low-dose fluorescein iris angiography.
(14) There was no influence upon the angle of squint and the correspondence.
(15) In divergent squint, the fovea competes with the much weaker nasal hemifield.
(16) The authors study 202 strabismus cases and evaluate the strabismic epidemiology of Tunisia: 58% of squint children have amblyopia.
(17) The shortened test shows the reduction in contrast sensitivity as well as the original LDT in squint amblyopia multiple sclerosis, optic neuritis and cerebral tumours.
(18) Besides the odontogenic keratocysts, the Case 1 patient had basal cell nevus, prominent frontal process, and ocular hypertelorism; the Case 2 patient had prominent frontal process; the Case 3 patient had prominent frontal process, ocular hypertelorism, and squint.
(19) Leukokoria and squint were the most frequent first signs of the tumor.
(20) The results of a prospective study of 66 cases of squint among black Zaïrian people are presented.