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Diplopia. Diplopia. Other names. Double vision. One way a person might experience double vision. Specialty. Neurology, ophthalmology. Diplopia is the simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be displaced horizontally or vertically in relation to each other. [ 1] Also called double vision, it is a loss of visual focus ...
The acronym GIF, commonly pronounced as a monosyllable, has a disputed pronunciation. Some individuals pronounce the word with a hard g, as in / ɡɪf / ⓘ, whereas others pronounce it with a soft g, as in / dʒɪf / ⓘ. [ 3] A minority prefer to pronounce it as an initialism, speaking the name of each letter, creating the pronunciation ...
Visual agnosia is an impairment in recognition of visually presented objects. It is not due to a deficit in vision (acuity, visual field, and scanning), language, memory, or intellect. [ 1] While cortical blindness results from lesions to primary visual cortex, visual agnosia is often due to damage to more anterior cortex such as the posterior ...
Aphantasia. A representation of how people with differing visualization abilities might picture an apple in their mind. The first image is bright and photographic, levels 2 through 4 show increasingly simpler and more faded images, and the last—representing complete aphantasia—shows no image at all. Aphantasia ( / ˌeɪfænˈteɪʒə / AY ...
Diplegia is the most common cause of crippling in children, specifically in children with cerebral palsy. [ 2] Other causes may be due to injury of the spinal cord. There is no set course of progression for people with diplegia. Symptoms may get worse but the neurological part does not change.
A calliope (see below for pronunciation) is a North American musical instrument that produces sound by sending a gas, originally steam or, more recently, compressed air, through large whistles —originally locomotive whistles. A calliope is typically very loud. Even some small calliopes are audible for miles.
Animism [ 1] The Pirahã (pronounced [piɾaˈhɐ̃]) [ a] are an indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. They are the sole surviving subgroup of the Mura people, and are hunter-gatherers. They live mainly on the banks of the Maici River in Humaitá and Manicoré in the state of Amazonas. As of 2018, they number 800 individuals. [ 2]
The name "G-dropping" is a reference to the way this process is represented in spelling: Since in English / ŋ / is typically spelled ng and / n / is spelled n , the process of replacing / ŋ / with / n / causes the g to "drop" from the spelling. Sociolinguists often refer to this variable by the notation (ing) .