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Definition of Scotoma
1. Noun. An isolated area of diminished vision within the visual field.
Specialized synonyms: Annular Scotoma, Central Scotoma, Hemianopic Scotoma, Paracentral Scotoma, Flittering Scotoma, Scintillating Scotoma
Derivative terms: Scotomatous
Definition of Scotoma
1. n. Scotomy.
Definition of Scotoma
1. Noun. an area of impaired or lost vision within a field of vision otherwise in a good (or at least healthy) state ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scotoma
1. a blind spot in the field of vision [n -MAS or -MATA]
Medical Definition of Scotoma
1. 1. An area of lost or depressed vision within the visual field, surrounded by an area of less depressed or of normal vision. 2. Mental scotoma Origin: Gr. Skotoma This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scotoma
Literary usage of 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. 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. ..."
3. An American Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat by Burton Alexander Randall, George Edmund DeSchweinitz (1901)
"The negative scotoma is not at first recognized by the patient, ... The scotoma
may occupy various positions, be single or multiple, central, ..."
4. Diagnostics of the Fundus Oculi by Edward Leroy Oatman (1920)
"In the lesser degrees of poisoning central scotoma may be demonstrated. ...
The visual fields present a central color scotoma for red and green with a ..."
5. Diagnosis from Ocular Symptoms by Matthias Lanckton Foster (1917)
"The Blind Spot A round, or elliptical, absolute, negative scotoma is present ...
Central scotoma When an object is seen better if it is a little to one side ..."
6. Ophthalmic Record: A Monthly Review of the Progress of Ophthalmology (1900)
"The peripheral fields normal; no definite scotoma in right, although color of
disc became much more apparent outside of fixation; there was, however, ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1884)
"... 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, was found in the right ..."
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