orthoptics

1. 1.

   treatment of defects of binocular vision (such as strabismus and amblyopia) by nonsurgical measures (especially by exercises to strengthen the eye muscles)

   Broadertreatment

Other forms of orthoptics

plural

orthopticses·

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 orthoptics

What does orthoptics mean?

orthoptics means "treatment of defects of binocular vision (such as strabismus and amblyopia) by nonsurgical measures (especially by exercises to strengthen the eye muscles)".

How many syllables are in orthoptics?

orthoptics has 3 syllables: or-thop-tics. The stress falls on "or".

Is orthoptics a common word?

orthoptics 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.