Nystagmus
WordNet
noun
(1) Involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders
WiktionaryText
Etymology
First attested in 1798. From from from .
Noun
- rapid involuntary eye movement, usually lateral
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- 1970: 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 — JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
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