scintillating scotoma

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   a localized area of diminished vision edged by shimmering colored lights; in many people it indicates the onset of migraine

   Synonymsflittering scotoma

   Broaderscotoma

Questions about scintillating scotoma

What does scintillating scotoma mean?

scintillating scotoma means "a localized area of diminished vision edged by shimmering colored lights; in many people it indicates the onset of migraine".

What is another word for scintillating scotoma?

Close synonyms include flittering scotoma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scintillating scotoma a common word?

scintillating scotoma 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.