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eye movement
smooth pursuit
saccade
Organ or Tissue Function
ocular fixation
oc·u·lar fix·a·tion [ ok-yuh-ler fik-sey-shuhn ]
Subclass of:
Eye Movements
Definitions related to fixation, ocular:
  • (visual fixation) Direction of the gaze so that the visual image of the object falls on the fovea centralis.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Positioning and accommodation of eyes that allows the image to be brought into place on the FOVEA CENTRALIS of each eye.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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