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Suppression (eye)

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70:"Suppression is familiar to anyone who has trained himself to look through a monocular microscope, sight a gun, or do any other strictly one-eye task, with the other eye open. The scene simply disappears for the suppressed eye." 122:
Young children with strabismus normally suppress the visual field of one eye (or part of it), whereas adults who develop strabismus normally do not suppress and therefore suffer from double vision (
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or both. For instance, children with infantile esotropia may alternate with which eye they look, each time suppressing vision in the other eye.
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meaning, more generally, an area of partial alteration in the visual field). Suppression can lead to
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Clinical Management of Binocular Vision: Heterophoric, Accommodative, and Eye Movement Disorders
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than young children. Patients who have undergone strabismus surgery at a young age often have
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is a subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of
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Subconscious adaptation by the brain to eliminate symptoms of eye disorders
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Namrata Sharma; Rasik B. Vajpayee; Laurence Sullivan (12 August 2005).
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Clinical Procedures for Ocular Examination. Second Ed.
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Index

eye
binocular vision
strabismus
convergence insufficiency
aniseikonia
scotoma
amblyopia
David H. Hubel
anisometropia
strabismus
eye examination
Worth 4 dot test
4 prism base out test
vision therapy
diplopia
strabismus surgery
monofixation syndrome
Amblyopia
Bagolini Striated Glasses Test
Diplopia
Infantile esotropia
David H. Hubel
section "Strabismus"
Clinical Management of Binocular Vision: Heterophoric, Accommodative, and Eye Movement Disorders
ISBN
978-0-7817-7784-1
"Refractive surgery and strabismus"
ISBN
978-1-84184-469-5
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