nystagmus

nystagmus
noun /nɪˈstæɡməs/
rapid involuntary eye movement, usually lateral

,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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