1) An abrupt spasmodic movement 2) French word used in English
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A saccade (d {respell|sə|KAHD|`}) is a fast movement of an eye, head or other part of the body or of a device. It can also be a fast shift in frequency of an emitted signal or other quick change. Saccades are quick, simultaneous movements of both eyes in the same direction. Initiated cortically by the frontal eye fields (FEF), or subcortically b....
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sharp lateral movement of the eye as it changes fixation
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• (n.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.
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(from the article `eye, human`) ...more than a fraction of a second; the movements are of three types: (1) irregular movements of high frequency (30–70 per second) and small ... In a related stabilizing activity the eyes scan in quick jerks (saccades) with short fixations; e.g., in reading. Normally the eyes cannot move ... [2 r...
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Rapid eye movement to redirect the line of sight. ... Origin: Fr. Saccade, sudden check of a horse ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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(sә-kād´) the series of involuntary, abrupt, rapid, small movements or jerks of both eyes simultaneously in changing the point of fixation. adj., saccad´ic., adj.
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Sac·cade' noun [ French]
(Man.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: să-kād′ Definitions: 1. Rapid eye movement to redirect the line of sight.
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Saccade: Abrupt rapid small movements of both eyes, such as when the eyes scan a line of print. The saccades can be divided into two distinct groups: the major saccades that are easily observed with the naked eye and the minor saccades that are virtually unobservable without special instrumentation. The word saccade is borrowed from the French. It ...
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saccade, rapid eye movement, saccaduc eye movement; saccadic movement 1. The act of controlling a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins. 2. The rapid involuntary movement of the eyes that occurs when an image of interest falls on the retina at a distance from the fovea (small depression), as normally occurs when reading the printed p...
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The normal, but largely unnoticed rapid darting of the eyes from one fixed point to another.
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noun a rapid, jerky movement of the eyes between positions of rest
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