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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 ...
Chienlit is a traditional French term typically translated as masquerade (French: Mascarade) or carnival/chaos.It was brought to notoriety by General Charles de Gaulle in an angry speech during the student protests in Paris during May 1968 in France, when he used the vernacular term as a scatological pun "La réforme oui, la chie-en-lit non" meaning Reform yes, but chaos—no whilst the pun ...
cachet. lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque.
Vertigo. Vertigo is a condition in which a person has the sensation that they are moving, or that objects around them are moving, when they are not. [ 1] Often it feels like a spinning or swaying movement. [ 1][ 2] It may be associated with nausea, vomiting, perspiration, or difficulties walking. [ 2] It is typically worse when the head is ...
Far-sightedness, also known as long-sightedness, hypermetropia, and hyperopia, is a condition of the eye where distant objects are seen clearly but near objects appear blurred. This blur is due to incoming light being focused behind, instead of on, the retina due to insufficient accommodation by the lens. [ 6]
Instead, scientists define emotions as “behavioral, physiological, and cognitive responses to environmental stimuli,” she said and measure things such as heart rate or observe an animal’s ...
A double entendre[ note 1] (plural double entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which is typically obvious, and the other often conveys a message that would be too socially unacceptable, or offensive to state directly. [ 2][ 3] A double entendre may exploit puns or word ...
Frequency. 2-9% males; <1% females. Congenital red–green color blindness is an inherited condition that is the root cause of the majority of cases of color blindness. It has no significant symptoms aside from its minor to moderate effect on color vision. [ 1] It is caused by variation in the functionality of the red and/or green opsin ...