What's the difference between strabismus and strabotomy?
Strabismus
Definition:
(n.) An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) This technique did not limit the success of the strabismus surgery.
(2) In 4 patients strabismus surgery alone restored binocular single vision.
(3) We examined 333 patients between the ages of 11 and 70 years who underwent strabismus surgery with adjustable sutures over a ten-year period.
(4) We investigated this hypothesis from a developmental perspective by studying the development of these two kinds of visual performance in two groups of infant macaque monkeys (Macaca nemestrina), one normal and one given an experimental strabismus.
(5) We give a general view of the extreme variety of clinical forms of strabismus and their causes and then give diagnoses and outlines for therapy based on four different type-cases.
(6) Twenty two strabismus and 106 straight eyed patients with anatomically normal eyes were first photographed with a conventional camera equipped with a weak 100 mm teleobjective and coaxial flashlight and then examined clinically.
(7) The refractive changes in 84 children (155 eyes) following horizontal strabismus surgery and in 97 children (181 eyes) without surgical intervention were studied.
(8) Apert-Crouzon syndrome (formerly ACS type 2; 10130) is now considered a subset of autosomal dominant Apert acrocephalosyndactyly type 1 (10120), with features of craniosynostoisis, syndactyly of all extremities, maxillary hypoplasia, "parrot-beaked" nose, hypertelorism, exophthalmos, external strabismus, and short upper lip.
(9) It may be argued that vergence movements are induced by disparity and represent the motor fusion component left over in strabismus.
(10) One hundred ten pediatric patients, ages 8 months to 14 yr, admitted for outpatient strabismus surgery were enrolled in a randomized, double-blinded study to compare droperidol and metoclopramide to placebo for the prevention of postoperative emesis.
(11) In 58 children below the age of 12 with strabismus operations were performed under anesthesia with Ketamine.
(12) Three hundred of the 1785 children with strabismus in out patient care during the latter five years were preterm babies, showing that prematurity intervenes in 16.7% of cases in the onset of strabismus.
(13) Binocular single vision was restored after buckle removal and strabismus surgery in three further patients (20%), one requiring a prism in addition.
(14) Uncorrected refractive error (particularly anisometropia), strabismus, ptosis, and corneal exposure problems are an invitation to the development of amblyopia.
(15) Ocular alignment is usually more divergent in strabismus patients under general anesthesia than in the awake state.
(16) The indications for surgery were: dysthyroid ophthalmopathy, fourth nerve palsy, monocular aphakia with strabismus and miscellaneous conditions.
(17) Botulinum injection of eye muscles as an alternative to strabismus surgery can be performed in young children with low dose ketamine sedation, or reassurance without sedation for older children.
(18) In esotropia, the most frequent type of strabismus, the authors consider as most suitable the technique of weakening of the inner rectus muscles by a dosed elongation according to Gonin-Hollwich, as compared with the classical retroposition of this muscle.
(19) Amblyopia was due to anisometropia in 24 cases (50%), strabismus in 9 cases (18.7%), high astigmatism (meridional) in 7 cases (14.5%) and other causes or a combination of factors in 8 cases (16.7%).
(20) In incomitant strabismus, surgery is usually limited to recessions of the involved muscles, most of the surgery is directed to the inferior rectus and medial rectus, as these are the most commonly affected muscles.
Strabotomy
Definition:
(n.) The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tonsillectomy and strabotomy, as well as equilibrating operations, have proved to the particularly traumatising, especially in infants.
(2) In one year, 303 outpatient strabotomies were performed at the Jules Stein Eye Institute on patients over 15 months old.