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Stra-bis′mus-for′ceps.

A straight or curved pinchers, with fine rat-tooth extremities for holding the muscles to be divided in correcting strabismus.

The operation for strabismus was first performed by Diffenbach in 1839, by dividing one of the six small muscles which rotate the eye.

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