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What does esotropia mean?

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Noun
  1. A form of strabismus in which one or both eyes turns inward.
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If there is NO movement of the uncovered eye when you remove the cover and the uncovered eye remains fixated then an alternating exotropia or esotropia is present.
Accommodative esotropia, which usually begins in toddlers who are farsighted, is an example.
Twelve patients had an esotropia, two an esophoria with asthenopic complaints, 35 an exotropia and two an exophoria with asthenopic symptoms.
This type of accommodative esotropia is not as common and most children with accommodative esotropia require simply a single vision lens to restore binocularity.
When an eye turns in, the child has esotropia.
A common type of concomitant strabismus seen in young children is accommodative esotropia, in which the eyes are consistently or intermittently crossed when trying to focus.

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