Entoptic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Entoptic is an adjective meaning (medicine) Located within the eyeball.
Meaning
(medicine) Located within the eyeball.
More Meanings
- (medicine) Of or relating to visual phenomena caused by objects within the eye, or the objects themselves.
Example Sentences
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]
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include periocular, perioptic, intraocular, endoocular, intraophthalmic, entopic.
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