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2. If You’re Seeing Eye Floaters or Flashes, Here’s What to Do ...

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   Floaters drift around your field of vision and dart away when you try to look at them directly, eventually settling at the bottom of your eye and out of your sightline. Floaters appear when the ...

3. Floater - Wikipedia

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   The vitreous humour, or vitreous body, is a jelly-like, transparent substance that fills the majority of the eye. It lies within the vitreous chamber behind the lens, and is one of the four optical components of the eye. [8] Thus, floaters follow the rapid motions of the eye, while drifting slowly within the pocket of liquid. [9]

4. Photopsia - Wikipedia

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   Peripheral (posterior) vitreous detachment occurs when the gel around the eye separates from the retina. This can naturally occur with age. However, if it occurs too rapidly, it can cause photopsia which manifests in flashes and floaters in the vision. Typically, the flashes and floaters go away in a few months.

5. Sympathetic ophthalmia - Wikipedia

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   Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO), also called spared eye injury, is a diffuse granulomatous inflammation of the uveal layer of both eyes following trauma to one eye. It can leave the affected person completely blind. Symptoms may develop from days to several years after a penetrating eye injury. It typically results from a delayed hypersensitivity ...

6. Yes, You Can Rent Out Your Eyeball For Money

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   n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...

7. Blue field entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia

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   If the eye stops moving, the dots keep darting around. If the eye moves, the dots follow instantaneously, because they are contained in the retina. In contrast, floaters are specks or threads of variable diameter and variable visual sharpness, some of complex shape, darker than the background. If the eye stops moving, the floaters settle down.