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Definition of Scintillating scotoma
1. Noun. A localized area of diminished vision edged by shimmering colored lights; in many people it indicates the onset of migraine.
Medical Definition of Scintillating scotoma
1. A localised area of blindness edged by brilliantly coloured shimmering lights (teichopsia); usually a prodromal symptom of migraine. See: fortification spectrum. Synonym: flittering scotoma. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scintillating Scotoma
Literary usage of Scintillating scotoma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"scintillating scotoma is usually accompanied by headache and sometimes also by
... The central origin of scintillating scotoma is apparent not only from the ..."
2. A Handbook of the diseases of the eye and their treatment by Henry Rosborough Swanzy (1897)
"Transitory Hemianopia, or scintillating scotoma.— This affection is characterized
by (1) symmetric defects in the fields of vision, usually of the ..."
3. Relations of Diseases of the Eye to General Diseases: Forming a by Max Knies (1895)
"The symptoms observed on the part of the eye are also cortical, such as conjugate
deviation, scintillating scotoma, homonymous hemianopsia .or defects of ..."
4. Hygiene of the Eye by William Campbell Posey (1918)
"... being compared by the patient to the appearance of air that has been heated
over a stove. The patient FIG. 67.—scintillating scotoma in migraine. ..."
5. Diagnosis from Ocular Symptoms by Matthias Lanckton Foster (1917)
"scintillating scotoma When a patient describes the appearance of a positive
central or paracentral scotoma in each eye, in the form of either a dark spot or ..."
6. A Manual of diseases of the eye for students and general practitioners by Clarence Archibald Veasey (1903)
"scintillating scotoma (Partial Fugacious Amaurosis, Transient Scotoma). This is
a condition which frequently occurs immediately preceding an attack of ..."
7. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs, Alexander Duane (1899)
"scintillating scotoma is usually accompanied by headache and sometimes also by
... The central origin of scintillating scotoma is apparent not only from the ..."
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