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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek στενός (stenós, “narrow”) (see steno-) + ὀπαῖος (opaîos, “perforated”), from ὀπή (opḗ, “opening”).
Adjective
stenopaeic (not comparable)
- (optics) Pertaining to a narrow opening or slit in an opaque barrier that restricts the light which reaches the eye.
1976 April, Thorkild Bramsen, “Traumatic hyphaema treated with the antifibrinolytic drug tranexamic acid”, in Acta ophthalmologica, volume 54, number 2:These patients were selected retrospectively, and only those treated with complete bed-rest and stenopaeic spectacles alone were accepted.
2009, Mark Rosenfield, Nicola Logan, Keith H. Edwards, Optometry: Science, Techniques and Clinical Management, →ISBN, page 219:Stenopaeic slit refraction is usually attempted when retinoscopy and more conventional subjective refractive techniques, i.e. JCC and FC, fail to provide satisfactory results.
2013, F. Crescitelli, The Visual System in Vertebrates, →ISBN, page 680:By contrast, the more aquatic sea lion eye is emmetropic in water and depends upon a flattened cornea and stenopaeic aperture for the formation of a good image in air (WALLs, 1942; SCHUSTERMAN, 1972).
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