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Floaters are from objects in pockets of liquid within the vitreous humour, the thick fluid or gel that fills the eye, [7] or between the vitreous and the retina. The vitreous humour, or vitreous body, is a jelly-like, transparent substance that fills the majority of the eye.
The term "six-pack" refers to the dizzying sensation of being hit directly in the head or face by a volleyball as being analogous to the dizzying sensation of having drunk a six pack of beer. The abdominal muscles are sometimes referred to as a "six-pack," so getting hit in the stomach by the ball is getting 'six-packed.'
The Floaters, an R&B singing group of the 1970s Floaters, 1977 "Floater (Too Much to Ask)", a song from the 2001 Bob Dylan album Love and Theft; Floating rate note, in finance, a bond with variable coupon rates; Floating rib, a bone in the human rib cage not connected to the sternum
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
Some examples of entoptical effects include: Floaters depiction Purkinje tree depiction. Floaters or muscae volitantes are slowly drifting blobs of varying size, shape, and transparency, which are particularly noticeable when viewing a bright, featureless background (such as the sky) or a point source of diffuse light very close to the eye.
The term has been around in Black American communities since the 1990s, appearing as early as 1992 on "It Was a Good Day" by Ice Cube, who raps: "No flexin', didn't even look in a n----'s direction."
The jaggedy pale tan streamers / threads / precipitates are what floaters are. Check. But the black dots, that look like scattered pepper in the visual field, NO? What is the medical term for those and is there an article in Wikipedia about them? This article mentions retinal tears causing bleeding into the vitreous for one cause of the black dots.
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