EYE MOVEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eye movement mean? 

• EYE MOVEMENT (noun)
  The noun EYE MOVEMENT has 1 sense:

1. the movement of the eyes

  Familiarity information: EYE MOVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EYE MOVEMENT (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)

 Context examples 

There is no treatment for some kinds of eye movement disorders, such as most kinds of nystagmus.

(Eye Movement Disorders, NIH)

It results from degeneration of the muscles or the neural pathways involved in the eye movement.

(Ophthalmoplegia, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include sudden changes in vision in one eye, including loss of vision and pain with eye movement.

(Optic neuritis, NCI Dictionary)

A rare syndrome affecting conjugate vertical eye movement.

(Parinaud Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Tumors may also occur in the brain and on nerves in the skull and spinal cord, and may cause loss of speech, eye movement, and the ability to swallow.

(Acoustic neurofibromatosis, NCI Dictionary)

Cerebrospinal fluid during non–rapid eye movement sleep also clears metabolic waste products from the brain.

(Deep Sleep May Play Role in Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

And thanks to our machine-learning approach, we not only validate the role of personality in explaining eye movement in everyday life, but also reveal new eye movement characteristics as predictors of personality traits.

(Eyes Can Indicate Personality Type, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Damage to the nerve or its nucleus disrupts horizontal eye movement control.

(Abducens Nerve, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep is a fascinating period when most of our dreams are made.

(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)

A group of researchers led by Takeshi Sakurai, Vice Director of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, found that acute optogenetic excitation of GABAergic neurons in BNST during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep in mice resulted in immediate transition to a wakefulness state without the function of orexins, highly important neuropeptides for maintaining wakefulness.

(The Secret Connection between Anxiety, Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)