physiological nystagmus

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   small involuntary tremors of the eyeballs; when it is eliminated by stabilizing the image on the retina, visual perception fades rapidly from fatigue of the retinal receptors

   Broadernystagmus

Questions about physiological nystagmus

What does physiological nystagmus mean?

physiological nystagmus means "small involuntary tremors of the eyeballs; when it is eliminated by stabilizing the image on the retina, visual perception fades rapidly from fatigue of the retinal receptors".

Is physiological nystagmus a common word?

physiological nystagmus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.