nystagmus

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

• IPA^(key): /nɪˈstæɡ.məs/, /naɪˈstæɡ.məs/

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• Hyphenation: ny‧stag‧mus

nystagmus (countable and uncountable, plural nystagmuses)

1. (pathology) rapid involuntary eye movement, usually lateral
   • 1970, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:

     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

• miner's disease

• nystagmus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɪstaɡmus]

nystagmus m inan

1. nystagmus

• “nystagmus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “nystagmus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Internationalism (see English nystagmus), ultimately from Ancient Greek νυσταγμός (nustagmós).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnystɑɡmus/, [ˈnys̠tɑ̝ɡmus̠]
• Rhymes: -ystɑɡmus
• Syllabification^(key): nys‧tag‧mus
• Hyphenation^(key): nys‧tag‧mus

nystagmus

1. (pathology) nystagmus

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