A tendency for the eyes to turn inward, prevented by binocular vision. SYN: esodeviation (1). [G. eso, inward, + phora, a carrying]
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es·o·pho·ria .es-ə-'fōr-ē-ə,sometimes .ē-sə- n squint in which the eyes tend to turn inward toward the nose
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n.
a tendency to squint in which the eye, when covered, tends to turn inwards towards the nose. See also heterophoria.
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eso·pho·ria (es″o-foґre-ə) [eso- + phoria] a form of heterophoria in which there is a deviation of the visual axis of an eye toward that of the other eye after the visual fusional stimuli have been eliminated; called also esodeviation. esophoric adjMedical dictionary. 2011.