| mental scotoma | Absence of insight into, or inability to comprehend, items relative to a subject whose content is highly emotional to the individual. Synonym: blind spot. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pericentral scotoma | A scotoma that surrounds the fixation point more or less symmetrically. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peripheral scotoma | A scotoma outside of the central 30 degrees of the visual field. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ring scotoma | An annular area of blindness in the visual field surrounding the fixation point in pigmentary degeneration of the retina and in glaucoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physiologic scotoma | The negative scotoma in the visual field, corresponding to the optic disk. Synonym: blind spot. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colour scotoma | An area of depressed colour vision in the visual field. (05 Mar 2000) |
| positive scotoma | A scotoma that is perceived as a black spot within the field of vision. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hemianopic scotoma | A scotoma involving half of the central field. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scintillating scotoma | A localised area of blindness edged by brilliantly coloured shimmering lights (teichopsia); usually a prodromal symptom of migraine. See: fortification spectrum. Synonym: flittering scotoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scotoma | 1. An area of lost or depressed vision within the visual field, surrounded by an area of less depressed or of normal vision. 2. Mental scotoma Origin: Gr. Skotoma (18 Nov 1997) |
| Seidel's scotoma | A form of Bjerrum's scotoma. See: Seidel's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sickle scotoma | A comet-shaped scotoma, occurring in glaucoma, attached at the temporal end to the blind spot or separated from it by a narrow gap; the defect widens as it extends above and nasally curves around the fixation spot, and then extends downward to end exactly at the nasal horizontal meridian. Synonym: Bjerrum's sign, sickle scotoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| negative scotoma | A scotoma that is not ordinarily perceived, but is detected only on examination of the visual field. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quadrantic scotoma | A scotoma involving a quarter segment of the central visual field. (05 Mar 2000) |
| zonular scotoma | A curved scotoma not corresponding to the path of retinal nerve fibres. (05 Mar 2000) |