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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ANISEIKONIA

New Latin, from aniso- + Greek eikon image.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ANISEIKONIA

aniseikonia  [ˌænaɪsaɪˈkəʊnɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANISEIKONIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Aniseikonia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANISEIKONIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Aniseikonia

Aniseikonia is an ocular condition where there is a significant difference in the perceived size of images. It can occur as an overall difference between the two eyes, or as a difference in a particular meridian.

Definition of aniseikonia in the English dictionary

The definition of aniseikonia in the dictionary is a condition caused by a defect in the lens of the eye in which the images produced in the two eyes differ in size or shape.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANISEIKONIA


Amazonia
æməˈzəʊnɪə
ammonia
əˈməʊnɪə
anhedonia
ˌænhɪˈdəʊnɪə
Caledonia
ˌkælɪˈdəʊnɪə
Catalonia
ˌkætəˈləʊnɪə
Cephalonia
ˌsɛfəˈləʊnɪə
Estonia
ɛˈstəʊnɪə
Franconia
fræŋˈkəʊnɪə
haemoconia
ˌhiːməˈkəʊnɪə
Ionia
aɪˈəʊnɪə
iseikonia
ˌaɪsɪˈkəʊnɪə
Laconia
ləˈkəʊnɪə
Livonia
lɪˈvəʊnɪə
Macedonia
ˌmæsɪˈdəʊnɪə
mahonia
məˈhəʊnɪə
Patagonia
ˌpætəˈɡəʊnɪə
pneumonia
njuːˈməʊnɪə
rhizoctonia
ˌraɪzɒkˈtəʊnɪə
syconia
saɪˈkəʊnɪə
zirconia
zɜːˈkəʊnɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANISEIKONIA

anise
aniseed
aniseikonic
anisette
anisic
anisocercal
anisodactyl
anisodactylous
anisogamous
anisogamy
anisole
anisomeric
anisomerous
anisometric
anisometropia
anisometropic
anisomorphic
anisophyllous
anisophylly
anisotropic

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANISEIKONIA

atonia
Babylonia
begonia
bignonia
boronia
bronchopneumonia
clintonia
dysphonia
dystonia
escallonia
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
houstonia
hypertonia
Konia
miltonia
New Caledonia
Pannonia
sinfonia
valonia
Washingtonia

Synonyms and antonyms of aniseikonia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «aniseikonia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANISEIKONIA

Find out the translation of aniseikonia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of aniseikonia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «aniseikonia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

像不等
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

aniseiconia
570 millions of speakers

English

aniseikonia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

aniseikonia
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تفاوت الصورتين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

анизейкония
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

aniseiconia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

aniseikonia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

aniseikonia
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Aniseikonia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Aniseikonie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不等像
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

aniseikonia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Aniseikonia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

aniseikonia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

aniseikonia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अँनीइकोोनिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aniseikonia
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

aniseikonia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

aniseikonia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

анізейконія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

aniseikonia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

aniseikonia
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aniseikonia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

aniseikonia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

aniseikonia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of aniseikonia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANISEIKONIA»

The term «aniseikonia» is normally little used and occupies the 148.263 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANISEIKONIA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «aniseikonia» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «aniseikonia» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about aniseikonia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANISEIKONIA»

Discover the use of aniseikonia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to aniseikonia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Binocular Vision and Stereopsis
2.8 ANISOMETROPIA AND ANISEIKONIA 2.8.1 Relation of anisometropia to aniseikonia Types of anisometropia and aniseikonia An ametropic eye is one in which the image is not brought to focus on the retina for some or all normal viewing ...
Ian P. Howard, 1995
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Clinical Management of Binocular Vision: Heterophoric, ...
There are few subjects that have been developed with greater care or are supported by more extensive research than that of aniseikonia. However, even though it is relatively common in clinical practice to encounter patients with symptoms of ...
Mitchell Scheiman, Bruce Wick, 2008
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Theory And Practice Of Optics And Refraction
ANISEIKONIA Aniseikonia is an anomaly of binocular vision in which the ocular images are unequal in size or shape or both. It should be borne in mind that aniseikonia is the cause of curable ocular discomfort, suffered by a relatively small but ...
Khurana, 2008
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Textbook of Ophthalmology
Aniseikonia. Athiya Agarwal DEFINITION Aniseikonia is a condition in which the size and shape of the two images in the two eyes is unequal. ETIOLOGY Optical • Inherent: Due to defects in the dioptric system of the eye and it is usually related ...
Sunita Agarwal, Athiya Agarwal, Lucio Buratto, 2002
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A Bibliography of Visual Literature, 1939-1944
Abstr., 1941, 15: 118-119. 679. Bannon, R. E. Practical aspects of aniseikonia. Amer. J. Optom., 1942, 19: 239-260. 680. Berens, C. and M. Loutfallah. Aniseikonia; a study of 836 patients examined with the ophthalmoeikonometer. Amer.
Phebe Margaret Hoff, Henrietta Tarlson Perkins, 1945
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Ocular Anatomy and Physiology
If the difference between the two eyes is high enough, aniseikonia may result ( see next section). While it is frequently asymptomatic, anisometropia can cause eyestrain, or worse, amblyopia (reduced "best" acuity without obvious cause).
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International Strabismological Association ISA 2002
In the normal subjects, aniseikonia was produced by mounting an iseikonic lens in front of one eye, which optically enlarges the image of an object by 20%. The aniseikonia produced ranged from l0 to 2l% (mean=l6%) by the NAT. On the ...
Jan-Tjeerd de Faber, 2003
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Step by Step LASIK Surgery
Aniseikonia is difficult to understand and the necessary aniseikonia quantitation is infrequently done. We recommend the Awaya New Aniseikonia testbook. We do not have experience with space eikonometers or synoptophores. Aniseikonia  ...
Namrata Sharma, Rasik B. Vajpayee, Laurence Sullivan, 2005
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Around the Eye in 365 Days
Aniseikonia Aniseikonia is a term that is often misunderstood. It not only resembles both 'anisometropia" and "asthenopia" but also is closely related to them in both etiology and symptomatology. Aniseikonia occurs when the size of the images ...
Gary S. Schwartz, 2008
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Perceiving in Depth, Volume 1: Basic Mechanisms
This measures horizontal aniseikonia. The subject then adjusts a horizontally oriented meridional lens until the cross wires in the square frame appear frontal. This measures vertical aniseikonia. (Redrawn from Burian and Ogle 1945) the ...
Ian P. Howard, Brian J. Rogers, 2012

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANISEIKONIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term aniseikonia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Aniseikonia returns to baseline after second cataract surgery
Aniseikonia induced by cataract surgery did not cause statistically significant changes in visual symptoms, according to a study recently ... «Healio, Feb 15»
2
Eyewear Market 2014 Report Says Contact Lenses Driving Growth …
Additionally, there are conditions such as keratoconus and aniseikonia that are typically corrected better by contacts than by glasses. «PR Newswire, Nov 14»
3
Contact lenses uncovered
... also promoted the benefits of contact lenses for correcting anisometropia by reducing differential prismatic effects and mitigating aniseikonia. «Optometry Today, Jul 14»
4
Optometrist Amar-Kaash Gandecha advises on the importance of …
A potential problem could be that the image size in one eye is so different in size to the other eye (aniseikonia) that binocular fusion is not ... «Optometry Today, Nov 12»
5
California Boy Wins National Spelling Bee
Joseph faltered on "aniseikonia" (a visual defect), while Prateek missed "oberek" (a Polish folk dance) and Isabel was out on "cyanophycean" ... «CBS News, Jun 07»

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