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scotometer Ophthalm.|skəʊˈtɒmɪtə(r)|
[f. scotoma + -meter.]
An instrument for diagnosing and measuring scotomata.
1890G. Ferdinands in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 Sept. 741/1 Those who frequently meet with cases of toxic amblyopia..must have found the small coloured squares used in detecting scotomata both an inadequate and inconvenient test... To obviate these disadvantages I have had made for me a little instrument..which I propose to call a scotometer. 1932Optician LXXXIII. 397/1, I did not take the fields for white, relying on the evidence of the scotometer. 1961S. van Wien tr. Huber's Eye Symptoms in Brain Tumors i. 75 For a quick survey to determine the presence of a scotoma for color, the so-called scotometer is suitable.
Hence scoˈtometry, the use of a scotometer; scotoˈmetric a.
1921Proc. R. Soc. Med. XIV. (Ophthalm. Sect.) 49 The purpose for which scotometry is of such importance is the determining of the increase of the blind spot in cases of suspected glaucoma. 1944Amer. Jrnl. Ophthalm. XXVI. 349 (heading) The form and character of rod scotometry. 1955Jrnl. Neurol., Neurosurg. & Psychiatry XVIII. 224/2 Scotometric studies suggested small infarctions in each infracalcarine striate cortex. |