exotropia

1. 1.

   strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward

   Synonymswalleyedivergent strabismus

   Broaderstrabismus

Other forms of exotropia

plural

exotropias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about exotropia

What does exotropia mean?

exotropia means "strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward".

How many syllables are in exotropia?

exotropia has 5 syllables: ex-o-tro-pi-a. The stress falls on "tro".

What is another word for exotropia?

Close synonyms include walleye, divergent strabismus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is exotropia a common word?

exotropia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.