A scotoma is an area of partial alteration in the field of vision consisting of a partially diminished or entirely degenerated visual acuity that is surrounded...
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Scintillating scotoma is a common visual aura that was first described by 19th-century physician Hubert Airy (1838–1903). Originating from the brain,...
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associated with nasal steps. Scotoma may be seen above or below the blind spot. Siedel's sickle-shaped scotoma: Paracentral scotoma joins with the blind spot...
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Vibrating visual field Scintillating scotoma Shimmering, pulsating patches, often curved Tunnel vision Scotoma Blind or dark spots Curtain like effect...
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determine whether the visual field is affected by diseases that cause local scotoma or a more extensive loss of vision or a reduction in sensitivity (increase...
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also commonly termed scintillating scotoma. Retinal migraine is associated with transient monocular visual loss (scotoma) in one eye lasting less than one...
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Multiple types of scotomas form inside Bjerrum's area, typically in patients with open-angle glaucoma. Of particular note is the arcuate scotoma (also known...
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involving internal fibers of the optic nerve causes central scotoma. lf unilateral central scotoma is detected, careful observation of the temporal visual...
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glaucomatous scotoma that was to become known as a "Bjerrum scotoma", which is a visual field defect that goes by several other names, such as "sickle scotoma",...
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Vertebrate Octopus A blind spot, scotoma, is an obscuration of the visual field. A particular blind spot known as the physiological blind spot, "blind...
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nerve, and the pituitary gland. In 1869, Jacob Hermann Knapp described scotoma and metamorphopsia in traumatic maculopathy with choroidal rupture using...
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that lead to excessive sweating. It can even affect the eyes, causing scotoma and amblyopia. The condition occurs more frequently in women, and usually...
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person's visual field that is suppressed is called the suppression scotoma (with a scotoma meaning, more generally, an area of partial alteration in the visual...
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migraine / retinal migraine) migraine aura without headache scintillating scotoma retinal break or detachment occipital lobe infarction (similar to occipital...
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Chiasmal syndrome (redirect from Junctional scotoma)
manifested as a central scotoma, and a defect involving the contralateral superotemporal field. This is also known as a junctional scotoma. An alternative explanation...
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bright dots moving quickly in the visual field. Ocular straylight Phosphene Scotoma Synchysis scintillans Johnson, D.; Hollands, H. (2011-11-28). "Acute-onset...
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Motion-induced blindness (section Perceptual scotoma)
responsible for completing missing information across the blind spot and scotomas where motion is involved. Rather than a deficiency of our visual processing...
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suppression scotoma.[citation needed] Whereas when the prism is placed in front of the deviated eye, the image instantly falls into the suppression scotoma, diplopia...
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Seidel's sign (also called Seidel's scotoma) is a sickle-shaped scotoma that is a superior or inferior extension of the blind spot. It occurs in some...
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as metamorphopsia and scotoma. It is a type of perimetry. Vision abnormalities such as metamorphopsia (distortions) and scotoma are symptoms of retinal...
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decreasing visual acuity and color vision, and by the presence of a central scotoma. Papilledema that is not yet chronic will not have as dramatic an effect...
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Miosis cause decreased peripheral sensitivity Hemianopsia Quadrantanopia Scotoma Visual field Homonymous hemianopsia Binasal hemianopsia Bitemporal hemianopsia...
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aura phase of migraine. Concomitant presence of a moving scintillating scotoma is suggestive of migraine, but has been seen in cerebral cancer as well...
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birth, characterised by sluggish or no pupillary responses (H53.1, H53.4) Scotoma (blind spot) — an area impairment of vision surrounded by a field of relatively...
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independent as possible, while trying to navigate the world with her severe scotoma-type low vision as a consultant. Dolly Lewis as Tess Avery, a former homicide...
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magnification (up to 30%), optical aberration, prismatic effect and roving ring scotoma, spectacles are not well tolerated by aphakic patients. Due to unequal...
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subjects can be conscious even if much degraded. Only moving objects in the scotoma are visible, static ones being invisible to the patient. The moving objects...
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Amblyopia Leber's congenital amaurosis Diplopia Scotoma Color blindness Achromatopsia Dichromacy Monochromacy Nyctalopia Oguchi disease Blindness / Vision...
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for rapid screening and follow-up of diseases involving deficits such as scotomas, loss of peripheral vision and more subtle vision loss. Perimetry testing...
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of unwanted perceptions, analogous to the visual blindness of an actual scotoma. This term initially was used by Charcot in connection with hysteria. Reviving...
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