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Definition of Central scotoma
1. Noun. A scotoma that involves the fixation point.
Medical Definition of Central scotoma
1. A scotoma involving the fixation point. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Central Scotoma
Literary usage of Central scotoma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"Fields for white showing central scotoma. Fig. 2.\. Fields for red, showing
scotoma central and to nasal side. Test objects used measure io cm. square. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1884)
"There was also papillitis in both eyes, and a central scotoma in the field of
the left. At the autopsy, a cystoid tumour, as large as a walnut, ..."
3. Diseases of the eye: A Handbook of Ophthalmic Practice for Students and by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"central scotoma is common in insular sclerosis. (e) Optic Neuritis with Scotoma.—An
unusual symptom of intraocular neuritis caused by meningitis is a ..."
4. Diagnostics of the Fundus Oculi by Edward Leroy Oatman (1920)
"In the lesser degrees of poisoning central scotoma may be demonstrated. In late
cases concentric contraction of the white fields may exist. ..."
5. An Index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by Herbert French (1918)
"central scotoma.—A scotoma is a local defect in the visual field, ... A central
scotoma, on the other hand, is noticed at once, however minute, ..."
6. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"[A central scotoma, even when so minute as to be demonstrable with difficulty,
usually causes much trouble in near work. A person with such a scotoma may ..."
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