VISUAL FIELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does visual field mean? 

• VISUAL FIELD (noun)
  The noun VISUAL FIELD has 1 sense:

1. all of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment

  Familiarity information: VISUAL FIELD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISUAL FIELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

field of regard; field of vision; visual field

Hypernyms ("visual field" is a kind of...):

visual image; visual percept (a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system)

 Context examples 

The upper part of a mouse’s visual field holds blue/UV cones and the lower part has green cones.

(New color vision pathway unveiled, NIH)

A unit of measure equal to the instances of an entity per visual field of a microscope set to its minimum magnification power.

(Per Low Powered Field, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of measure equal to the instances of an entity per visual field of a microscope.

(Per Visual Field, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical manifestations include headache, visual field disturbances, pituitary insufficiency, and mild hyperprolactinemia.

(Pituitary Gland Macroadenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of measure equal to the instances of an entity per visual field of a microscope set to its maximum magnification power.

(Per High Powered Field, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients may present with blurred vision, visual field loss, floaters, and ocular pain.

(Ciliary Body Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This new study shows that this process – deciding that an object is present or that an event has occurred in the visual field – is handled by the superior colliculus.

(Researchers discover neural code that predicts behavior, National Institutes of Health)

When signs and symptoms occur, they include blurred vision, visual field loss, floaters, and ocular pain.

(Choroid Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The consequences of the increased pressure may be manifested in a variety of symptoms, depending upon type and severity, such as excavation of the optic disk, hardness of the eyeball, corneal anesthesia, reduced visual acuity, seeing of colored halos around lights, disturbed dark adaptation, visual field defects, and headaches.

(Glaucoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

In essence, this simple differential threshold of neuronal activity in the superior colliculus triggers the animal to report the presence of something in the visual field.

(Researchers discover neural code that predicts behavior, National Institutes of Health)