nystagmus

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

• IPA^(key): /nɪˈstæɡməs/

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

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1. nystagmus