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nystagmus

Syllables: ny·stag·mus/nɪˈstæɡ.məs/

nystagmus noun: rapid and excessive involuntary eye movement, usually lateral.

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Noun

nystagmus (countable and uncountable, plural nystagmuses)

  1. Rapid and excessive involuntary eye movement, usually lateral.
    • For months Travis had seen his solitary figure, shoulders hunched inside the flying jacket, in more and more newsreels, as an extra in war films, and then as a patient in an elegant ophthalmic film on nystagmus1970, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
    Synonyms:
    miner's disease

nystagmus meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Arabic

nystagmus in Tamil

அனிச்சை விழி அசைவு, கண் விழி ஊசல் நோய், விழிக்கோள சுழற்சி, அலையும் விழி, விழிநடுக்கம், விழிநிலையாமை

nystagmus in Kannada

ಕಣ್ಣದಿರು ರೋಗ, ಅಕ್ಷಿದೋಲನ

nystagmus in Arabic

rapid and excessive involuntary eye movement
رَأْرَأَة raʔraʔa

Synonyms of nystagmus

Forms of nystagmus

pluralnystagmuses

Origin of nystagmus

First attested in 1798. From New Latin nystagmus, from Ancient Greek νυσταγμός (nustagmós, “nodding, drowsiness”), from νυστάζω (nustázō, “nod, be sleepy”).

Words formed from nystagmus

Questions about nystagmus

What does nystagmus mean?
Nystagmus means rapid and excessive involuntary eye movement, usually lateral.
What is nystagmus in Tamil?
Nystagmus in Tamil is அனிச்சை விழி அசைவு, கண் விழி ஊசல் நோய், விழிக்கோள சுழற்சி. See Nystagmus meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nystagmus?
Nystagmus is a noun.
How do you pronounce nystagmus?
Nystagmus is pronounced /nɪˈstæɡ.məs/.
What is the plural of nystagmus?
The plural of nystagmus is nystagmuses.

Words near nystagmus in the dictionary

  1. nystagmogram
  2. nystagmograms
  3. nystagmographic
  4. nystagmography
  5. nystagmoid
  6. nystagmus
  7. nystagmuses
  8. nystatin
  9. nystatinolide
  10. nystatins
  11. nystose

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nystagmus (page history and authors); nystagmus (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nystagmus (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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