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UK
/nˈɪstæɡməs/
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NOUN
- involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders
How To Use nystagmus In A Sentence
- Side effects are similar to those of parenteral phenytoin: nystagmus, dizziness, pruritus, paraesthesias, headache, somnolence, and ataxia.
- Some children taking Neurontin may experience fatigue, sleep problems, dizziness, incoordination, behavioral problems, weight gain, movement problems or nystagmus (a rhythmical jerking of the colored part of the eye).
- Doses should be withheld for nystagmus, sedation, ataxia, or dysarthria.
- She suffers from a combination of dyslexia and a severe visual impairment consisting of severe photophobia, nystagmus and cone dystrophy.
- Tremor can be found in multiple sclerosis often with slurred speech and jerky eye movements, called nystagmus.
- Firstly, patients who develop significant symptoms with testing but do not develop nystagmus do not have benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.
- Depending on the extent and location of the coloboma, there may be decreased visual acuity, nystagmus, strabismus, photophobia, and a loss of visual fields.
- Potentially serious neurologic disease should be suspected in patients with focal neurologic signs, severe ataxia, nystagmus changing direction, vertical nystagmus and abnormal eye movement.
- She has constant titubation and rhythmic jerking of her entire upper and lower extremities, obvious eye nystagmus and difficulty in initiating ocular saccades.
- They are amblyopic, and this is due partially to a high degree of ametropia (caused by crushing of the eyeball in the endeavor to shut out light) and from retinal exhaustion and nystagmus. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine