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vitreous floaters
[ vi-tree-uhs floh-terz ]
Definitions related to vitreous floaters:
  • (floaters) Tiny spots or lines that appear in a person's field of vision when the jelly-like fluid of the eye breaks down with age. They are usually harmless, but can signal serious eye problems.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • (floaters) Vitreous opacities which present as small moving spots in the visual field.
    NICHD Pediatric Terminology
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor or lens.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Deposits of various size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility within the eye's vitreous humour, which is normally transparent.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
  • Spots or stringy shapes in vision, often caused by deposits, aggregates, or cell fragments in the vitreous humor or lens.
    U.S. FDA Glossary
    U.S. Food & Drug Administration, 2021
  • (floaters) A disorder characterized by an individual seeing spots before their eyes. The spots are shadows of opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor or lens.
    Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events
    U.S. National Institutes of Health, 2021
  • Floaters are opacities that move across the visual field and do not correspond to external visual objects. With aging, the vitreous humor can contract and separate from the retina. The age at which this change occurs varies but most often is between 50 and 75 years. During this separation, the vitreous can intermittently tug on the...
    Merck Manuals
    Merck & Co., Inc., 2020
  • Eye floaters are spots in your vision. They may look to you like black or gray specks, strings, or cobwebs that drift about when you move your eyes and appear to dart away when you try to look at them directly.
    Mayo Clinic
    Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
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