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Amblyopia, also called lazy eye, is a disorder of sight in which the brain fails to fully process input from one eye and over time favors the other eye. [1] It results in decreased vision in an eye that typically appears normal in other aspects. [ 1 ]
People may also experience accommodative dysfunction, binocular dysfunction, amblyopia, and strabismus. [3] Newborns are almost invariably hypermetropic, but it gradually decreases as the newborn gets older. [6] There are many causes for this condition.
The brain can eliminate double vision by ignoring all or part of the image of one of the eyes. The area of a person's visual field that is suppressed is called the suppression scotoma (with a scotoma meaning, more generally, an area of partial alteration in the visual field). Suppression can lead to amblyopia.
Toxic amblyopia, or nutritional optic neuropathy, is a condition where a toxic reaction in the optic nerve results in visual loss. Various poisonous substances may cause the condition as well as nutritional factors. [1] Tobacco amblyopia is a form of toxic amblyopia caused by tobacco containing cyanide. Tobacco amblyopia is marked by a gradual ...
I felt like my lazy eye, known medically as amblyopia, completely defined who I was. I thought that if I could hide it just once, maybe people would see me and think of me as something more than ...
Lazy eye refers to several specific ophthalmic disorders: Medicine. Amblyopia, a disorder of visual development in which the brain partially or wholly ignores ...
Ptosis, also known as blepharoptosis, [1] is a drooping or falling of the upper eyelid.This condition is sometimes called "lazy eye", but that term normally refers to the condition amblyopia.
Orthoptists are responsible for the diagnosis and non-surgical management of strabismus (cross-eyed), amblyopia (lazy eye) and eye movement disorders. [1] The word orthoptics comes from the Greek words ὀρθός orthos , "straight" and ὀπτικός optikοs , "relating to sight" and much of the practice of orthoptists concerns disorders of ...