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  2. Amblyopia - Wikipedia

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    Deprivation Amblyopia: This occurs when something obstructs light from entering the eye, preventing proper vision development. A congenital cataract is an example of such a condition. Strabismic Amblyopia: The most common form, this type arises when the eyes are not properly aligned, leading to double vision. To avoid confusion, the brain ...

  3. Exotropia - Wikipedia

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    In young children with any form of strabismus, the brain may learn to ignore the misaligned eye's image and see only the image from the best-seeing eye. This is called amblyopia, or lazy eye, and results in a loss of binocular vision, impairing depth perception. In adults who develop strabismus, double vision sometimes occurs because the brain ...

  4. Ptosis (eyelid) - Wikipedia

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    This condition is sometimes called "lazy eye", but that term normally refers to the condition amblyopia. If severe enough and left untreated, the drooping eyelid can cause other conditions, such as amblyopia or astigmatism, so it is especially important to treat the disorder in children before it can interfere with vision development.

  5. Growing up with a lazy eye was difficult. It still makes me ...

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    That was until I learned how to cover my lazy eye, a condition known as amblyopia, with bangs. However, I had a monstrous cowlick at the front of my head that stuck up. Bangs only drew more ...

  6. Visual impairment - Wikipedia

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    Amblyopia: is a category of vision loss or visual impairment that is caused by factors unrelated to refractive errors or coexisting ocular diseases. [59] Amblyopia is the condition when a child's visual systems fail to mature normally because the child either has been born premature, measles, congenital rubella syndrome, vitamin A deficiency ...

  7. Strabismus - Wikipedia

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    Strabismus is an eye disorder in which the eyes do not properly align with each other when looking at an object. [2] The eye that is pointed at an object can alternate. [3] The condition may be present occasionally or constantly. [3] If present during a large part of childhood, it may result in amblyopia, or lazy eyes, and loss of depth ...

  8. Eye disease - Wikipedia

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    (H52.2) Astigmatism — the cornea or the lens of the eye is not perfectly spherical, resulting in different focal points in different planes (H52.3) Anisometropia — the lenses of the two eyes have different focal lengths (H52.4) Presbyopia — a condition that occurs with growing age and results in the inability to focus on close objects

  9. Astigmatism - Wikipedia

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    Airy presented his observations on his own eye in February 1825 at the Cambridge Philosophical Society. [43] [44] Airy produced lenses to correct his vision problems by 1825, [42] [45] while other sources put this into 1827 [46] when Airy obtained cylindrical lenses from an optician from Ipswich. [47] The name for the condition was given by ...