Word of the Day:
nystagmus
What It Means
Rapid and excessive involuntary eye movement, usually lateral.
Nystagmus in Context
“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 nystagmus”
Did You Know?
First attested in 1798. From New Latin nystagmus, from Ancient Greek νυσταγμός (nustagmós, “nodding, drowsiness”), from νυστάζω (nustázō, “nod, be sleepy”).
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