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floater

floater

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A small dark spot that drifts across your field of vision
  • noun
  • /ˈfloʊtər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : mosca volante
  • Because, like floaters and tinnitus, you shouldn't think about him.
  • eye floaters
  • get floaters
  • floaters and blurred vision

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Examples

  • This is why people with near sightedness tend to develop eye floaters at a younger age.

  • The most notable are large floaters that we call a posterior vitreous detachment or a PVD.

  • Do you see them, your floaters?

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  • Now those are caused by floaters, little particles actually drifting around inside your eyeball.

  • The memory faded, leaving only the floaters drifting across the insides of her eyelids.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • I went to the ophthalmologist about a floater in my right eye.

  • Now, are you seeing any floaters in your eye?

  • You can't get rid of floaters; the key is to learn to ignore them.

Synonyms

muscae volitantes
vsfloater
  • Specialized
9.9

Dark spots or thin lines that float across your vision

is the common description focusing on small dark drifting shapes in vision
musca volitans
vsfloater
  • Specialized
9.9

Small moving spots you see in front of your eyes

emphasizes causes in the vitreous humor rather than the lens

Surface Forms

floater singular
floaters plural

Morphology

floater = float (transparent) = float + er

A 'floater' in vision is literally something that 'floats' in the vitreous, so the composition float + -er is straightforward.

Etymology

Floater comes from the verb float, which means 'to drift'. The small dark spots you see in your eye are called floaters because they seem to 'float' or drift across your field of vision.