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Definition of Nystagmic
1. Adjective. Exhibiting or pertaining to nystagmus (involuntary eye movement). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nystagmic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Nystagmic
1. Relating to or suffering from nystagmus. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nystagmic
Literary usage of Nystagmic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"When looking to the extreme right or left, or upon rotating the eyes upward or
downward, there were also vertical nystagmic movements. ..."
2. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1908)
"This was accomplished by increasing the power of the spherical glass for the
normal eye sufficiently to reduce its visual acuity below that of the nystagmic ..."
3. Diseases of the Ear by Philip Davie Kerrison (1913)
"A person exhibiting vestibular nystagmus tends to move within the plane of the
nystagmus, and to fall in the direction opposite to the quick nystagmic ..."
4. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"Apparently the nystagmic movements are ocular attempts to re-establish spacial
orientation. In these turning tests vertigo is also experienced. ..."
5. Physical diagnosis by Wallace Dickinson Rose (1917)
"In the interpretation of nystagmic movements, it is to be borne in mind that the
... Thus by a study of the nystagmic movements the extent of a labyrinthine ..."
6. Ophthalmic review (1903)
"This obstacle he considers to be sufficient to check the weak stimulus of nystagmic
movement from crossing, while the powerful impulses to associated ..."
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