(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.
Squirt
Definition:
(v. t.) To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.
(v. i.) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; -- said of liquids.
(v. i.) Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
(n.) An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force.
(n.) A small, quick stream; a jet.
Example Sentences:
(1) For direct measurement of the ESR signal of superoxide anion (O2-) produced in biological samples, O2- generated at a physiological pH was trapped in alkaline media instead of by a rapid freezing method, and then its signal was measured by ESR spectroscopy at 77 K. A reaction mixture for O2- generation, such as xanthine oxidase-xanthine and neutrophils, was incubated at a physiological pH (pH 7.0-7.5) for a suitable reaction period (30s), then an aliquot (300 microliters) was pipetted out and squirted into 600 microliters of 0.5 M NaOH to stabilize O2- (pH-jump).
(2) A total of 22 females with this disease whose age ranged from 22 to 69 years were treated for two years with high concentration purified sea-squirt antigen named Ei-M having a molecular weight of 22,800.
(3) To test whether this inhibitory effect of Na+ reflected inhibition of the hydrolysis of E2P, we measured the rate of loss of incorporated 32P when enzyme, newly phosphorylated by [gamma32P]ATP, was squirted into a large volume of ice-cold solution containing 1,2-cyclohexylenedinitrilotetraacetic aicd (CDTA), unlabelled ATP and 0, 5 or 150 mM-Na+.
(4) Doses of 1.25, 2.5, 5.0 mg and placebo, as 1 squirt, were randomly given to all patients.
(5) I’ve just been around a long time.” Jocelyne Larocque, one of the last cuts before the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, gave Canada their first goal of the tournament only 85 seconds after the opening faceoff when a rebound squirted out to her at the blue line and she wristed a shot past Schelling.
(6) Formation of immune complexes can be responsible for the "squirting papilla" phenomenon, and conversion of the stratum corneum - which is normally an inaccessible antigen - into its reactive form seems to be brought about by proteases of polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
(7) John Terry and Ledley King leapt to meet the rebound with the ball squirting away for Mata to volley from a tight angle into the mass of bodies in the goal-mouth.
(8) The fight ends with you stomping the last remaining vitality from the hapless construction worker's blood-squirting body.
(9) When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.'
(10) Indirect immunofluorescence studies using antisera to synthetic somatostatin, human calcitonin and substance P indicate, in the neural complex of the sea-squirt, Ciona intestinalis L., that these polypeptides are present in large perikarya situated at the periphery of the cerebral ganglion as well as in some smaller perikarya in the medulla.
(11) The lipid content of sea squirts is low, namely less than a half percent of the fresh weight.
(12) César Azpilicueta's throw-in two minutes into stoppage-time prompted panic, the ball squirting out for the Spaniard in front of goal only for Cassio to smother the chance.
(13) Hoya (sea-squirt) asthma is a typical type I occupational asthma.
(14) Strong electrical stimuli to the nerve or a squirt of relatively large amount of water into the oropharynx prolonged the duration of both swallowing and the cessation of rhythmic jaw movements for about 1.0 sec.
(15) With the lights switched off during ascent, I could press my face against the porthole to see the bioluminescent displays of deep-sea animals: flashes and squirts of light in the smothering darkness, triggered by the passing of our submersible.
(16) Teat dipping lowers the number of new infections (5 vs 15 for the control group of M III), but the association of squirting and teat dipping gives no better results (6 new infections).
(17) Southern blot analyses revealed that sequences homologous to the rat gene are present in sea squirt, fish, bird, and human DNA, indicating that this gene is highly conserved and that related proteins may be present in many if not all vertebrates.
(18) Then the ball squirts out to Kaka at the edge of the area.
(19) All the mains water from the washing machine squirted out," said Mooney.
(20) Son worked the ball to Alli and the midfielder’s shot was blocked, before it squirted back off him towards Kane.