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Eye Diseases > Ocular Motility Disorders > Strabismus > Exotropia
Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Ocular Motility Disorders > Strabismus > Exotropia
Nervous System Diseases > Cranial Nerve Diseases > Ocular Motility Disorders > Strabismus > Exotropia

Preferred term

Exotropia  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Divergent Strabismus
  • Strabismus, Divergent

Note

  • do not confuse with ESOTROPIA, eye turning inward

Scope note

  • A form of ocular misalignment where the visual axes diverge inappropriately. For example, medial rectus muscle weakness may produce this condition as the affected eye will deviate laterally upon attempted forward gaze. An exotropia occurs due to the relatively unopposed force exerted on the eye by the lateral rectus muscle, which pulls the eye in an outward direction.

History note

  • 90(83); was see under STRABISMUS 1983-89

In other languages

  • uloskarsastus

    Finnish

  • divergent konkomitant skelning utåtskelning
  • divergoiva karsastus
  • ei ajoittainen vuorotteleva yhden silmän eksotropia
  • eksotropia
  • exotropi alternerande monokulär utom intermittent
  • exotropia
  • exotropia alternans monocularis non intermittens
  • ilmeinen uloskarsastus
  • myötäseuraava ilmeinen uloskarsastus
  • strabismus divergens
  • strabismus divergens concomitans
  • Utåtskelning

    Swedish

  • Alternerande exotropi
  • Exotropi
  • Monokulär exotropi
  • Primär exotropi
  • Sekundär exotropi
  • Strabismus divergens

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005099

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