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Nystagmus

//nɪˈstæɡ.məs// noun

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Noun

1
rapid involuntary eye movement, usually lateral countable, uncountable
"For months Travis had seen his solitary figure, shoulders hunched inside the flying jacket, in more and more newsreels, as an extra in war films, and then as a patient in an elegant ophthalmic film on nystagmus"
2
involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders wordnet

Etymology

First attested in 1798. From New Latin nystagmus, from Ancient Greek νυσταγμός (nustagmós, “nodding, drowsiness”), from νυστάζω (nustázō, “nod, be sleepy”).

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