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EYE MOVEMENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The movement of the eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("eye movement" is a kind of...):

motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eye movement"):

nystagmus (involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders)

saccade (a rapid, jerky movement of the eyes between positions of rest)

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 Context examples: 

Using a cutting-edge NeuroGrid system they invented, along with recording electrodes placed deeper into the brain, the researchers examined activity in several parts of rats’ brains during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, the longest stage of sleep.

(Study shows how memories ripple through the brain, National Institutes of Health)

Some eye movement disorders are present at birth.

(Eye Movement Disorders, NIH)

There are many kinds of eye movement disorders.

(Eye Movement Disorders, NIH)