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scintillating, ppl. a.|ˈsɪntɪleɪtɪŋ|
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That scintillates; sparkling. lit. and fig. scintillating scotoma (Path.), hallucinatory flickering patterns and gaps in the visual field as seen in migraine.
1775Ash, Scintillating, sending forth sparks, sparkling as the stars. 1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. (1791) 33 Cold from each point cerulean lustres gleam, Or shoot in air the scintillating stream. 1810Shelley Zastrozzi i. Pr. Wks. 1888 I. 6 A scintillating flame darted from the ceiling to the floor. 1883F. Harrison Choice of Bks., etc. (1886) 401 It is a very inferior task to extract statements from a thousand writers, and then to piece them together into a sort of scintillating mosaic. 1883W. B. Hadden tr. J. M. Charcot's Lect. Localisation of Cerebral & Spinal Dis. xi. 122 A particular form of megrim..characterised especially by the co-existence of scintillating scotoma. 1918J. H. Parsons Diseases of Eye (ed. 3) xix. 384 Scintillating scotomata of various kinds occur in migraine... A positive scotoma appears in the field of vision; while obscuring sight it has a peculiar shimmering character. 1950Berens & Siegel Encycl. of Eye 37 Visual hallucinations, such as scintillating scotoma. |