Heterophoria is a type of eye condition in which the directions that the eyes are pointing at rest position, when not performing binocular fusion, are not consistent with each other. A person with two normal eyes has single vision (usually) because of the combined use of the sensory and motor systems. The motor system acts to point both eyes at th...
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A tendency for deviation of the eyes from parallelism, prevented by binocular vision. ... Origin: hetero-+ G. Phora, movement ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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(het″әr-o-for´e-ә) failure of the visual axes to remain parallel after the visual fusional stimuli have been eliminated. The various forms of heterophoria are spoken of as phorias, with their direction indicated by an appropriate prefix, such as cyclophoria, esophoria, exophoria, hyperphoria, and hypop...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: het′ĕr-ō-fō′rē-ă Definitions: 1. A tendency for deviation of the eyes from parallelism, prevented by binocular vision.
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heterophoria A tendency for deviation of the eyes from parallelism, prevented by binocular vision.
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