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MUSCA VOLITANS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does musca volitans mean?
• MUSCA VOLITANS (noun)
The noun MUSCA VOLITANS has 1 sense:
1. spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens
Familiarity information: MUSCA VOLITANS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
floater; musca volitans; muscae volitantes; spots
Context example:
floaters seem to drift through the field of vision
Hypernyms ("musca volitans" is a kind of...):
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
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