scotomatous
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scotomatous — Relating to scotoma. * * * sco·tom·a·tous (sko tomґə təs) pertaining to or affected with scotoma … Medical dictionary
scotomatous — adj. pertaining to a partial loss of vision, pertaining to a blind spot affecting part of the visual field (Medicine) … English contemporary dictionary
scotomatous — sco·tom·a·tous … English syllables
scotomatous — adjective relating to scotoma • Pertains to noun: ↑scotoma • Derivationally related forms: ↑scotoma * * * ˈtäməd.əs adjective Etymology: New Latin scotomat , scotoma + English ous … Useful english dictionary
scotoma — scotomatous /skoh tom euh teuhs/, adj. /skoh toh meuh/, n., pl. scotomas, scotomata / meuh teuh/. Pathol. loss of vision in a part of the visual field; blind spot. [1535 45; < LL < Gk skótoma dizziness. See SCOTO , OMA] * * * … Universalium
Scotoma — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = ICD10 = ICD10|H|53|4|h|53, ICD10|H|53|1|h|53 ICD9 = ICD9|368.4, ICD9|368.12 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = eMedicineTopic = MeshID = D012607 A scotoma (Greek: darkness ; plural:… … Wikipedia
blindsight — A term introduced in 1974 by the British neu ropsychologists Lawrence Weiskrantz (b. 1926) et al. to denote residual vision in cases of cortical blindness, especially when there is a corresponding lack of awareness of the visual capacity on… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
blind spot — Also known as Mariotte s spot, physiological scotoma, physiological blind spot, and punctum caecum. All five terms are used to denote the physiological hole existing in each monocular field of vision that corresponds morphologically with the… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
cerebral amblyopia — The term cerebral amblyopia is indebted to the Greek noun ambluopia, which means weakness of vision. It refers to a variant of * amblyopia, or diminished visual acuity, attributed to a lesion affecting the retrochiasmal part of the visual… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
migraine aura — The term migraine comes from the Old English megrim, which is in turn indebted to the Greek noun hèmikranion (meaning half the skull). The introduction of the term hèmikranion is attributed to the classical physician Galen of Pergamum, born as … Dictionary of Hallucinations
