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anoopsia

anoopsia noun: a condition in which one eye gazes upward while the other looks straight ahead.

Noun

anoopsia (uncountable)

  1. A condition in which one eye gazes upward while the other looks straight ahead.
    • The man who had been standing in the doorway stepped forward to greet them. No pheretrer he! His luteous face, scrobiculate by some unspeakable disease, was further disfigured by an anoopsia.1958 May 9, Strix [pseudonym], “English Spoken Here”, in The Spectator, volume 200, number 6776, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 585, column 2

Origin of anoopsia

From ano- (“upwards”) + -opsia.

Questions about anoopsia

What does anoopsia mean?
Anoopsia means a condition in which one eye gazes upward while the other looks straight ahead.
What part of speech is anoopsia?
Anoopsia is a noun.

Words near anoopsia in the dictionary

  1. anonymuncule
  2. anonymuncules
  3. anonymy
  4. anoon
  5. Anoop
  6. anoopsia
  7. anoperineal
  8. anophelene
  9. anopheles
  10. anophelicide
  11. anophelin

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