In performing the cover test, you note that the uncovered eye moves outward. The patient has?
Correct. When the fixating eye is covered, the other eye will move outward from its inwardly deviated position to fixate the viewed object.
Incorrect. In exotropia, when the fixating eye is covered, the outwardly deviated eye will move inward to fixate the viewed object..
Incorrect. In hypertropia, when the fixating eye is covered, the upwardly deviated eye will move downward to fixate the viewed object..
Incorrect. Hyperopia is a refractive error, not an ocular misalignment. When either eye is covered, no fixational movement occurs because the previously uncovered eye had been fixating. .