Assertion: strabismus's eye | /r/HasProperty | covered
Facets:
value: for a few seconds
type: TEMPORAL
value: alternately
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: While the patient is fixating on the target, one eye is covered.
text: If the uncovered eye is well aligned, it will not shift position when the other eye is covered.
text: For example, if the left eye is turned in, as the right eye is covered, the left eye will move outward to fixate on the target.
text: If an eye is higher and the other eye is covered, the eye makes a downward movement when the other eye is covered.
text: If an eye is higher and the other eye is covered, the eye makes a downward movement when the other eye is covered.
text: A prism is held over the deviated eye and the eyes are alternately covered.
text: One eye is then covered while the other is observed for movement.
text: No movement should be detected if the eyes are properly aligned, but manifest strabismus is present if the uncovered eye shifts to establish fixation once the other eye, which had fixed on the object, is covered.
text: In exotropia, the eye that was covered turns in to fixate; in esotropia, it turns out to fixate.
text: In young children, visual acuity is difficult to measure and can be estimated by observing the reactions of the patient when one eye is covered, including observing the patient's ability to follow objects with one eye.
text: This eye is then covered and the other eye is observed for movement.
text: This eye is then covered and the other eye is observed for movement.
text: The eye that deviates when both are uncovered often realigns with the object the patient is focusing on when the fixated eye is covered.
text: There is a similar test where each eye is alternately covered and uncovered in quick succession that can offer clues as to a misalignment in the patient’s gaze.
text: It’s most common when only one eye is covered.
text: Additionally, a latent deviation that only presents when binocular vision is disrupted, such as when one eye is covered is identified by changing the end of the classification type.
text: In about 5 cases out of a hundred, strabismus is caused by a damaged eye muscle--when the good eye is covered, the turned eye's ability to move in all directions is limited.
text: In most cases, however, the eye muscles are normal: when one eye is covered, the other eye moves freely in all directions.
text: If the eye being tested is the strabismic eye, then it will fixate on the object after the "straight" eye is covered, as long as the vision in this eye is good enough.
text: Since measurement of vision is difficult in young children, the doctor often estimates visual acuity by watching how well a baby follows objects with each eye when the other eye is covered.
text: The doctor observes the responses of the baby when one eye is covered.
text: If one eye is amblyopic and the good eye is covered, the baby may attempt to look around the patch placed over the good eye or object to the patch.
text: One eye is then covered while the other is observed for movement.
text: No movement should be detected if the eyes are properly aligned, but manifest strabismus is present if the uncovered eye shifts to establish fixation once the other eye, which had fixed on the object, is covered.
text: In exotropia, the eye that was covered turns in to fixate; in esotropia, it turns out to fixate.
text: One eye is covered for a few seconds and then rapidly removed.
text: Sometimes, the vision in the deviated eye will be permanently reduced, even when the fixing eye is covered.
text: The first eye is covered for approximately 1-2 seconds.
text: As this eye is covered, the uncovered eye is observed for any shift in fixation.
text: The patient is orthotropic or has no misalignment, but this needs to be confirmed by seeing the same thing when the opposite eye is covered; or The uncovered eye is the fixating or preferred eye in the setting of a heterotropia.
text: The cover/uncover part includes 1 eye being covered.
text: When a patient has a manifest strabismus the uncovered eye will take up fixation when the fixing eye is covered.