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stenopaic

stenopaic is the alternative form of stenopaeic.

Meaning of stenopaeic

Adjective

stenopaeic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to a narrow opening or slit in an opaque barrier that restricts the light which reaches the eye.
    • Prof. Danders has lately devised "stenopic spectacles," based on the principle of excluding the rays of light from the opacity, and admitting their entrance through a small opening in a glass, or any other suitable material held close to the eye and darkened on its posterior wall, thus to admit...1855 September, Isidor Gluck, “Clinical Lectures on some of the Principal Diseases of the Eye”, in Austin Flint, S. B. Hunt, editors, Buffalo Medical Journal and Monthly Review of Medical and...

Questions about stenopaic

What is stenopaic the alternative form of?
Stenopaic is the alternative form of stenopaeic.

Words near stenopaic in the dictionary

  1. stenonid
  2. stenonids
  3. stenonite
  4. stenooclusive
  5. stenopaeic
  6. stenopaic
  7. stenopalynous
  8. stenopeic
  9. stenopelmatid
  10. stenopelmatids
  11. stenopetalous

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