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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. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Eye of Providence - Wikipedia

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    The Eye of Providence can be found on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States, as seen on the U.S. $1 bill, depicted here. The Eye of Providence or All-Seeing Eye is a symbol depicting an eye, often enclosed in a triangle and surrounded by a ray of light or a halo, intended to represent Providence, as the eye watches over the workers ...

  7. Cover test - Wikipedia

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    If the eye was exotropic, covering the fixating eye will cause an inwards movement; and if esotropic, covering the fixating eye will cause an outwards movement. The alternating cover test, or cross cover test is used to detect total deviation (tropia + phoria).

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. Sedna (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    amphitrite. Roman equivalent. Salacia. Sedna ( Inuktitut: ᓴᓐᓇ Sanna, previously Sedna or Sidne) is the goddess of the sea and marine animals in Inuit mythology, also known as the Mother of the Sea or Mistress of the Sea. The story of Sedna, which is a creation myth, describes how she came to rule over Adlivun, the Inuit underworld .

  11. Yam Suph - Wikipedia

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    Yam Suph. In the Exodus narrative, Yam Suph ( Hebrew: יַם-סוּף, romanized : Yam-Sūp̄, lit. 'Reed Sea') or Red Sea, sometimes translated as Sea of Reeds, is the body of water which the Israelites crossed following their exodus from Egypt. The same phrase appears in over 20 other places in the Hebrew Bible.