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walleye
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walleye, in medicine

walleye: see strabismus strabismus , inability of the eyes to focus together because of an imbalance in the muscles that control eye movement; also called squint. It is a consequence of weakness or uneven development of one or more of the six small muscles that surround the eye.
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walleye, in zoology

walleye or walleyed pike: see perch perch, common name for some members of the family Percidae, symmetrical freshwater fishes of N Europe, Asia, and North America. The perch belongs to the large order Perciformes (spiny-finned fishes) and is related to the sunfishes and the sea basses.
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walleye

 or walleyed pike

Species (Stizostedion vitreum) of pikeperch (family Percidae), carnivorous food and game fishes found in clear, cool lakes and rivers of eastern North America. Walleyes are slender and darkly mottled. They have two dorsal fins and generally weigh less than 10 lbs (4.5 kg), though some may weigh up to 24 lbs (11 kg). They are at most 35 in. (90 cm) long. Walleyes are not true pikes.


walleye
1. a divergent squint
2. opacity of the cornea
3. an eye having a white or light-coloured iris
4. (in some collies) an eye that is particoloured white and blue
5. a North American pikeperch, Stizostedion vitreum, valued as a food and game fish
6. any of various other fishes having large staring eyes


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The film, naturally, will be released on Zaffino's own Minstrel Wall Eye label.
He had a parrot mouth [the top of the jaw overlaps the bottom], walked quite close in front and had a slight wall eye [in which the iris is of a whitish colour] on his off side.
ROTOR HEAD NUN POP IN DEED PEEP SHOW EWE YAY HIGH NOON SEES RED EYE ROTOR CLOUD LEVEL REPAPER WALL EYE LEVEL TWELVE NOON ROTOR SHIP RADAR REVERSALS First and third words are reversals.
 
 
 
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