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Mirroring is the behavior in which one person subconsciously imitates the gesture, speech pattern, or attitude of another. [ 1] Mirroring often occurs in social situations, particularly in the company of close friends or family, often going unnoticed by both parties. The concept often affects other individuals' notions about the individual that ...
Computer vision syndrome. Computer vision syndrome ( CVS) is a condition resulting from focusing the eyes on a computer or other display device for protracted, uninterrupted periods of time and the eye's muscles being unable to recover from the constant tension required to maintain focus on a close object.
Eye-rolling is a gesture in which a person briefly turns their eyes upward, often in an arcing motion from one side to the other. In the Anglosphere, it has been identified as a passive-aggressive response to an undesirable situation or person. The gesture is used to disagree or dismiss or express contempt for the targeted person without ...
קיינ יינ-אָרע; also pronounced: kin ahurrah): lit., "No evil eye!"; German kein: none; Hebrew עין ayn—eye, הרע harrah—bad, evil; an apotropaic formula spoken to avert the curse of jealousy after something or someone has been praised; khaloymes (Yid. כאָלעם): dreams, fantasies; used in the sense of "wild dreams ...
Optography is the process of viewing or retrieving an optogram, an image on the retina of the eye. A belief that the eye "recorded" the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a frequent plot device in fiction of the time, to the extent that police photographed the victims' eyes in several ...
Photophobia is a medical symptom of abnormal intolerance to visual perception of light. [1] As a medical symptom, photophobia is not a morbid fear or phobia, but an experience of discomfort or pain to the eyes due to light exposure or by presence of actual physical sensitivity of the eyes, [2] though the term is sometimes additionally applied to abnormal or irrational fear of light, such as ...
A distant object is defined as an object located beyond 6 meters (20 feet) from the eye. When an object is located close to the eye, the rays of light from this object no longer approach the eye parallel to each other. Consequently, the eye must increase its refractive power to bring those rays of light together on the retina.
Retinal scan. A retinal scan is a biometric technique that uses unique patterns on a person's retina blood vessels. It is not to be confused with other ocular-based technologies: iris recognition, commonly called an "iris scan", and eye vein verification that uses scleral veins.