Word Meanings - PHOTOPSIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An affection of the eye, in which the patient perceives luminous rays, flashes, coruscations, etc. See phosphene.

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• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• PATIENTLY
  In a patient manner. Cowper.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• AFFECTIONATED
  Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
• AFFECTIONATE
  1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
• LUMINOUS
  1. Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color. Fire burneth wood, making it . . . luminous. Bacon. The mountains lift . . . their lofty and luminous heads. Longfellow. 2. Illuminated;
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• AFFECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
• PHOSPHENE
  A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. After- image.
• AFFECTIONATENESS
  The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
• AFFECTIONATELY
  With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.
• PATIENT
  1. Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell. 2. Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-
• COMPATIENT
  Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
• OVERPATIENT
  Patient to excess.
• OMNIPATIENT
  Capable of enduring all things. Carlyle.
• OUT-PATIENT
  A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
• SELF-LUMINOUS
  Possessing in itself the property of emitting light. Sir D. Brewster.
• MISAFFECTION
  An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall.
• DISAFFECTIONATE
  Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. Blount.
• ILLUMINOUS
  Bright; clear. H. Taylor.
• ALUMINOUS
  Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution.
• FLUMINOUS
  Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.