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n. - A reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly.

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Usage examples (11)
  • Her eyes were already beginning to glaze over, the double eyelids spasming in repeated nictitation.
  • For it is better to have one starting-point for nictitation than two; and in these birds this starting-point is the junction of eye and nostrils, an anterior...
  • No twinkling, no scintillation, no nictitation, disturbed their pure and lambent gleam.
  • This want of transparency of the cornea is visible sometimes in dying people, owing to their inirritability, and consequent neglect of nictitation.
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