Maddox Wing Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: The Maddox Wing apparatus measures strabismus (misalignment of the eyes commonly termed squint or lazy eye). Ernest Maddox (1863-1933) was a prominent English ophthalmologist and ophthalmic surgeon who elucidated the nature of binocular fusion and the components of convergence, and invented the Maddox rod and other optical apparatus.
label: Description
content: Ref: E. E. Maddox, “The Wing Test for Heterophoria,” Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom 33 (1913) 22?-227.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject
content: Orthoptics
label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83545U25
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Test, Eye, Maddox Wing
label: Other Terms
content: Test, Eye, Maddox Wing; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 12 in; 31.115 cm x 15.875 cm x 30.48 cm