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MUSCA VOLITANS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does musca volitans mean? 

MUSCA VOLITANS (noun)
  The noun MUSCA VOLITANS has 1 sense:

1. spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lensplay

  Familiarity information: MUSCA VOLITANS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MUSCA VOLITANS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

floater; musca volitans; muscae volitantes; spots

Context example:

floaters seem to drift through the field of vision

Hypernyms ("musca volitans" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)


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