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Definition of Peripheral vision
1. Noun. Vision at the edges of the visual field using only the periphery of the retina.
Medical Definition of Peripheral vision
1. Vision resulting from retinal stimulation beyond the macula. Synonym: indirect vision. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peripheral Vision
Literary usage of Peripheral vision
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)
"In this regard we must distinguish between central and peripheral vision.
Central or direct vision is vision with the fovea centralis. ..."
2. General Psychology by Walter Samuel Hunter (1919)
"peripheral vision is based upon the fact of the varying distribution of the visual
substances in the retina. Twilight vision is a matter of the lower ..."
3. Human Psychology by Howard Crosby Warren (1919)
"peripheral vision. — A greater number of hues are distinguished near the center
of the retina than farther out toward the periphery. ..."
4. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"peripheral vision is thought to be very important in tasks that call for large
... The defects in peripheral vision are sensitive indices of ocular and ..."
5. Ophthalmology and Ophthalmoscopy: For Practitioners and Students of Medicine by Hermann Schmidt-Rimpler, Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa (1889)
"peripheral vision (Visual Field and Eccentric Vision). In addition to the macula
lutea, the remainder of the retina as far as the vicinity of its equatorial ..."
6. An Index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by Herbert French (1918)
"Compared with the visual acuity of the central portion of the field of vision,
peripheral vision is relatively poor, though it is of extreme value in a ..."
7. Silent Reading, with Special Reference to Methods for Developing Speed: A by John Anthony O'Brien (1921)
"peripheral vision Upon the fixation-pause, during which all vision or ... The area
of peripheral vision is consequently much larger than that of clear ..."
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