stenopaeic

English

Adjective

stenopaeic (not comparable)

  1. (optics) Pertaining to a small 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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