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Webster 1913 Edition
Photopsia
Pho-top′si-a
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
φῶς
, φωτός
, light + ὄψισ
sight.] (Med.)
An affection of the eye, in which the patient perceives luminous rays, flashes, coruscations, etc. See
phosphene
. 