| VDT | vibration disappearance threshold; visual display terminal; visual distortion test |
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| VI | Roman numeral six; vaginal irrigation; variable interval; vastus intermedius; virgo intacta; virulen... |
| ADA | adenosine deaminase; American Dental Association; American Dermatological Association; American Diab... |
| AOA | American Osteopathic Association; Administration on Aging; Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society; American... |
| BSA | benzenesulfonic acid; Biofeedback Society of America; bismuth-sulfite agar; bis-trimethylsilyl-aceta... |
| Bender Visual Motor Gestalt test | <psychology> A psychological test used by neurologists and clinical psychologists to measure a person's ability to visually copy a set of geometric designs. It consists of nine geometric designs on cards. The subject is asked to redraw them from memory after each one is presented individually. It is useful for measuring visuospatial and visuomotor coordination to detect brain damage. Synonym: Bender Visual Motor Gestalt test. (14 Aug 2000) |
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| Broca's visual plane | A plane drawn through the visual axes of each eye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| receptor, visual | The layer of rods and cones, the visual cells, of the retina. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pattern recognition, visual | Visually perceived characters, shapes, displays, or designs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| visual | Pertaining to vision or sight. Origin: L. Visualis, from videre = to see (18 Nov 1997) |
| visual acuity | <microscopy> The ability to detect fine details or small distances with the eye. Visual acuity can vary substantially depending on the definition used and method of measurement chosen. Under favourable conditions, the resolution of the human eye or ability to distinguish the twoness of adjoining lines, is about I minute of arc while the threshold delectability, or the detection of misaligned steps in a line (which is also a form of visual acuity), can be as low as a fraction of a second of arc. (05 Aug 1998) |
| visual agnosia | The inability to recognise objects by sight; usually caused by bilateral parieto-occipital lesions. Synonym: optic agnosia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| visual angle | The angle formed at the retina by the meeting of lines drawn from the periphery of the object seen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| visual aphasia | <neurology> Loss of the ability to understand printed words or sentences (27 Sep 1997) |
| visual axis | The straight line extending from the object seen, through the centre of the pupil, to the macula lutea of the retina. Synonym: line of vision. (05 Mar 2000) |
| visual blackout | See: amaurosis fugax. (05 Mar 2000) |
| visual cortex | Area of the occipital lobe concerned with vision. (12 Dec 1998) |
| visual cycle | The transformation of carotenoids involved in the bleaching and regeneration of the visual pigment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| visual efficiency | A rating used in computing compensation for industrial ocular injuries, incorporating measurements of central acuity, visual field, and ocular motility. (05 Mar 2000) |
| visual evoked potential | Voltage fluctuations that may be recorded from the occipital area of the scalp as the result of retinal stimulation by a light flashing at 1/4-second intervals; commonly summated and averaged by computer. (05 Mar 2000) |