Mariotte's spot
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Mariotte experiment law spot — Ma·ri·otte experiment, law, spot (mah re otґ) [Edme Mariotte, French physicist, 1620–1684] see under experiment, and see Boyle s law, under law, and blind spot, under spot … Medical dictionary
spot — 1. SYN: macula. 2. To lose a slight amount of blood through the vagina. acoustic spots macula of utricle, macula of saccule. Bitot spots small, circumscribed, lusterless, grayish white, foamy, greasy, triangular deposits on the bulbar … Medical dictionary
Mariotte experiment — an experiment to demonstrate the blind spot of the eye: the eye is fixed on the center of a cross marked on a card on which is also marked a large spot; the card is moved to or from the face, and at a certain distance the image of the spot will… … Medical dictionary
Mariotte — Edmé, French physicist, 1620–1684. See M. bottle, M. experiment, M. law, M. blind spot … Medical dictionary
blind spot — Also known as Mariotte s spot, physiological scotoma, physiological blind spot, and punctum caecum. All five terms are used to denote the physiological hole existing in each monocular field of vision that corresponds morphologically with the… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
mancha ciega de Mariotte — Eng. Mariotte s spot Ver escotoma fisiológico … Diccionario de oftalmología
Mariotte spot — discus nervi optici … Medical dictionary
Edme Mariotte — (Til Châtel c. 1620 Paris 12 May 1684) was a French physicist and priest.[1] Contents 1 Biography 2 Work 3 Publications … Wikipedia
Blind spot (vision) — For other uses, see Blind spot (disambiguation). Vertebrate … Wikipedia
disk — 1. A round, flat plate; any approximately flat circular structure. 2. SYN: lamella (2). 3. In dentistry, a circular piece of thin paper or other material, coated with an abrasive substance, used for cutting and polishing tee … Medical dictionary
