Organ or Tissue Function
smooth pursuit
smooth pur·suit
Subclass of:
Eye Movements
Definitions related to pursuit, smooth:
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Eye movements that are slow, continuous, and conjugate and occur when a fixed object is moved slowly.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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(smooth pursuit eye movement) Smooth continuous eye movements; a neuropsychological test of visual tracking of a moving object; jerky eye movements are a biomarker for familial vulnerability to schizophrenia and manic depressive disorder.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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