nystagmus (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *nystagmus*:
NOUN	act	nystagmus	involuntary movements of the eyeballs

English > *nystagmus*: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaning	involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders.
Narrower	physiological nystagmus	small involuntary tremors of the eyeballs
	post-rotational nystagmus	nystagmus caused by suddenly stopping the rapid rotation of the body
	rotational nystagmus	nystagmus caused by the body rotating rapidly
Broader	eye movement	The movement of the eyes
Catalan	nistagme

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