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nystagmuses

nystagmuses is the plural of nystagmus.

Meaning of nystagmus

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

Questions about nystagmuses

What is nystagmuses the plural of?
Nystagmuses is the plural of nystagmus.

Words near nystagmuses in the dictionary

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

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