Entoptic

"Entoptic" in a Sentence (2 examples)

When small opaque particles exist in the transparent media, they may cast their shadow on the retina so as to give rise to images which are projected outwards by the mind into space, and thus appear to exist outside of the body. Such phenomena are termed entoptic.

Entoptic [corrected] phenomena in pregeniculate and postgeniculate hemianopsia with splitting of macula by perimetry [the original article ((15 March 1990), volume 109, number 3, page 375) misspelled the word as entopic]

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