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  2. Central retinal artery occlusion - Wikipedia

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    Cherry red spot in a person with central retinal artery occlusion. Central retinal artery occlusion is characterized by painless, acute vision loss in one eye. [1] Upon fundoscopic exam, one would expect to find: cherry-red spot (90%) (a morphologic description in which the normally red background of the choroid is sharply outlined by the swollen opaque retina in the central retina), retinal ...

  3. Confrontation visual field testing - Wikipedia

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    For testing the right eye field, the patient is asked to close his left eye, and look straight at the examiner's left eye (preferably) or nose. [1] Examiner should also close his/her right eye. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] Move a finger or bead-on-a-stick inwards from an area outside the usual 180º visual field, and ask the patient when they first see the targets.

  4. Binasal hemianopsia - Wikipedia

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    The absence of vision in half of a visual field is described as hemianopsia. The absence of visual perception in one quarter of a visual field is described as quadrantanopsia. The visual field of each eye can be divided in two vertically, with the outer half being described as temporal or lateral, and the inner half being described as nasal.

  5. Amaurosis fugax - Wikipedia

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    The experience of amaurosis fugax is classically described as a temporary loss of vision in one or both eyes that appears as a "black curtain coming down vertically into the field of vision in one eye;" however, this altitudinal visual loss is not the most common form.

  6. Entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    To see it, one must be in a dark room, with one eye closed; one must look straight ahead while moving a light back and forth in the field of the open eye. Then one should see the sixth Purkinje as a dimmer image moving in the opposite direction. The Purkinje tree is an image of the retinal blood vessels in one's own eye, first described by ...

  7. Collimator sight - Wikipedia

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    The user aligns one eye with the sight while the other eye remains open and focused on the target. This allows the brain to superimpose the aiming reticle onto the target, creating a composite image. Alternatively, the user can adjust their head position to switch between viewing the sight and the target with the same eye or use a partial ...

  8. This Christmas, ask for genetic testing. It could save your life.

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    Rose Brystowski, 68, had a choice to make. Others might have found it difficult. She found it easy. Doctors discovered a lump during her sister's mammogram back in 2008 that came back positive for ...

  9. Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep - Wikipedia

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    In domestic chicks and other species of birds exhibiting USWS, one eye remained open contra-lateral (on the opposite side) to the "awake" hemisphere. The closed eye was shown to be opposite the hemisphere engaging in slow-wave sleep. Learning tasks, such as those including predator recognition, demonstrated the open eye could be preferential. [8]