small involuntary tremors of the eyeballs; when it is eliminated by stabilizing the image on the retina, visual perception fades rapidly from fatigue of the retinal receptors
involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders
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