Hypertropia
Hypertropia is a type of squint (which is also known as strabismus and as heterotropia). Recall that a squint is an abnormal alignment of the eyes.
Hypertropia is the term used to describe the type of squint (abnormal alignment of the eyes) in which one eye - it can be either the right-eye, or the left-eye - looks upwards in situations in which one would usually expect both eyes to be directed other than upwards, e.g. both eyes looking towards a specific test object.
Terms used to refer to the main forms of squint include:
- Horizontal: Convergent Strabismus (also called Esotropia)
- Horizontal: Divergent Strabismus (also called Exotropia)
- Vertical: Hypertropia (an eye looks upwards)
- Vertical: Hypotropia (an eye looks downwards)
- Eyes twisted clockwise or anticlockwise relative to each other Cyclotropia.
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