Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition of having the sensation as of light or of flashes of light without external cause.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) An affection of the eye, in which the patient perceives luminous rays, flashes, coruscations, etc. See
phosphene .
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- noun medicine The presence of
perceived flashes of light
Etymologies
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photo- + -opsia
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Examples
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Even in these cases, however, the troubles were but slight, the chief being, apparently, photopsia (a subjective sensation of light) with otherwise normal conditions of pupil, vision, color-sense, and retina.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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