pencil push-up

pencil push-up
 n.β€” Β«One method requires a patient to practice converging on a near target or object β€”turning his or her eyes inwardβ€”at home using a procedure called pencil push-ups (so named because the classic object to focus on was the point of a pencil).Β» β€”β€œTreatment available for eyes that don’t function as a team” Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier (Iowa) Oct. 4, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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