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ORTHOPTICS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Treatment of defects of binocular vision (such as strabismus and amblyopia) by nonsurgical measures (especially by exercises to strengthen the eye muscles)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("orthoptics" is a kind of...):
intervention; treatment (care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury))
Derivation:
orthoptic (of or relating to normal binocular vision)
orthoptist (a specialist in orthoptics)
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