Pediatric Ophthalmology Glossary

Lens opacification occurring in infancy or childhood, requiring urgent evaluation and potential surgery to prevent depri...

Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group, the primary research network for pediatric ophthalmology studies.

Involuntary eye movements characterized by equal velocity oscillations in both directions, resembling a pendulum.

Automated vision screening technology that uses flash photography to detect refractive errors and eye alignment problems...

A behavioral assessment technique using striped patterns to evaluate visual acuity in preverbal children.

The measured strabismus angle when the normal (preferred) eye is fixating and the paretic or amblyopic eye is deviated.

A unit of measurement for ocular deviation, where one prism diopter deviates light by 1 cm at a distance of 1 meter.

The condition of having an artificial intraocular lens implanted in place of the natural crystalline lens, typically fol...

Appearance of eye misalignment when the eyes are actually properly aligned.

Drooping of the upper eyelid that may obstruct vision in children.

Inward eye turn that occurs when uncorrected hyperopia triggers excessive accommodation and convergence.

Specialized evaluation to determine candidacy for vision correction surgery in pediatric patients with high refractive e...

Most common primary intraocular malignancy in children, typically presenting before age 5 with leukocoria or strabismus.

Retinopathy of prematurity, a potentially blinding eye disorder affecting premature infants.

The measured strabismus angle when the paretic or amblyopic eye is forced to fixate and the normal eye assumes the devia...

Outward eye deviation that develops secondary to poor vision in one eye, disrupting normal binocular fusion.

The neurological process by which the brain combines slightly disparate images from both eyes into a single, three-dimen...

Misalignment of the eyes where they do not look in the same direction simultaneously.

Weakness or paralysis of the superior oblique muscle causing vertical diplopia and compensatory head positioning.

An area of visual field loss caused by cortical inhibition of input from one eye to prevent diplopia in strabismus.

A preferential looking test using grating stimuli to assess visual acuity in infants and non-verbal children.

A form of incomitant strabismus where the eyes diverge more in upgaze than in downgaze, creating a V-shaped pattern.

Disconjugate eye movements where the eyes move in opposite directions to maintain single binocular vision.

Conjugate eye movements where both eyes move in the same direction simultaneously.