latent strabismus

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noun Ophthalmology.

the tendency, controllable by muscular effort, for one or both eyes to exhibit strabismus.

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Now listen to me, said the dying woman, aloud, as if making a great effort to revive one latent spark of energy.
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That high-pressure engines owed their advantages mainly to a reduction of the relative importance of this latent heat.
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Again she felt that everlasting calm, arguing such latent forces, was the thing she hated most in him.
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But it possessed a latent purchasing power such as probably no other Government in history ever had.
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