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  2. Esophoria - Wikipedia

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    Esophoria is an eye condition involving inward deviation of the eye, usually due to extra-ocular muscle imbalance. It is a type of heterophoria. Cause. Causes include: Refractive errors; Divergence insufficiency; Convergence excess; this can be due to nerve, muscle, congenital or mechanical anomalies.

  3. Esotropia - Wikipedia

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    Ophthalmology. Esotropia is a form of strabismus in which one or both eyes turn inward. The condition can be constantly present, or occur intermittently, and can give the affected individual a "cross-eyed" appearance. [1] It is the opposite of exotropia and usually involves more severe axis deviation than esophoria.

  4. Thalassophobia - Wikipedia

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    Thalassophobia (from Ancient Greek θάλασσα (thálassa) 'sea', and φόβος (phóbos) 'fear') is the persistent and intense fear of deep bodies of water, such as the ocean, seas, or lakes. Though very closely related, thalassophobia should not be confused with aquaphobia, which is classified as the fear of water itself.

  5. Heterophoria - Wikipedia

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    Heterophoria is an eye condition in which the directions that the eyes are pointing at rest position, when not performing binocular fusion, are not the same as each other, or, "not straight". This condition can be esophoria, where the eyes tend to cross inward in the absence of fusion; exophoria, in which they diverge; or hyperphoria, in which ...

  6. Cover test - Wikipedia

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    Cover test. A cover test or cover-uncover test is an objective determination of the presence and amount of ocular deviation. It is typically performed by orthoptists, ophthalmologists and optometrists during eye examinations . The two primary types of cover tests are: the alternating cover test. the unilateral cover test (or the cover-uncover ...

  7. Blind men and an elephant - Wikipedia

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    The sensual eye is just like the palm of the hand. The palm has not the means of covering the whole of the beast. Rumi does not present a resolution to the conflict in his version, but states: The eye of the Sea is one thing and the foam another. Let the foam go, and gaze with the eye of the Sea.

  8. Anisometropia - Wikipedia

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    Amblyopia. Anisometropia is a condition in which a person's eyes have substantially differing refractive power. [1] Generally, a difference in power of one diopter (1D) is the threshold for diagnosis of the condition . [2] [3] Patients may have up to 3D of anisometropia before the condition becomes clinically significant due to headache, eye ...

  9. Richat Structure - Wikipedia

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    Adrar Plateau of the Sahara. Part of. Adrar Region, Mauritania. Native name. قلب الريشات‎. The Richat Structure, or Guelb er Richât ( Arabic: قلب الريشات Qalb ar-Rīšāt ), is a prominent circular geological feature in the Adrar Plateau of the Sahara. It is located near Ouadane in the Adrar Region of Mauritania.

  10. Morskie Oko - Wikipedia

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    Morskie Oko, or Eye of the Sea in English, is the largest and fourth-deepest lake in the Tatra Mountains, in southern Poland. It is located deep within the Tatra National Park in the Rybi Potok (the Fish Brook) Valley, of the High Tatras mountain range at the base of the Mięguszowiecki Summits , in Lesser Poland Voivodeship .

  11. Graeae - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In Greek mythology, the Graeae ( Ancient Greek: Γραῖαι; / ˈɡriːiː /; English translation: "old women", alternatively spelled Graiai and Graiae) were three sisters who had gray hair from their birth and shared one eye and one tooth among them. [1] They were also called the Grey Sisters and the Phorcides ("daughters of Phorcys ") [2]