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1. Dizziness with dimness of sight.
2. <medicine> Obscuration of the field of vision due to the appearance of a dark spot before the eye.
Origin: NL. Scotomia, from Gr. Dizziness, fr. To darken, fr. Skotos darkness: cf. F. Scotomie.
(01 Mar 1998)
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