PHYSIOLOGICAL NYSTAGMUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small involuntary tremors of the eyeballs; when it is eliminated by stabilizing the image on the retina, visual perception fades rapidly from fatigue of the retinal receptors

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Hypernyms ("physiological nystagmus" is a kind of...):

nystagmus (involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders)

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