anoopsia

English

Etymology

From ano- (“upwards”) +‎ -opsia.

Noun

anoopsia (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) A condition in which one eye gazes upward while the other looks straight ahead.
    • 1958 May 9, Strix [pseudonym], “English Spoken Here”, in The Spectator, volume 200, number 6776, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 585, column 2:
      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.

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