visual disturbance
Seeing something wrong
A visual disturbance is any disruption to normal vision—floaters, flashing lights, blind spots, blurring, or distortions in what you see.
The term appears most often in medical contexts: She reported visual disturbances before her migraines.
Visual disturbances can signal anything from eye strain to serious neurological conditions.
- floatersVisual field debris
- black spotsLocalized dark discolorations
- seeing starsDisoriented after head trauma
- flashing lightsIntermittent bright signals
- hallucinationsPerceptions without external cause
afterimages · phosphenes · eye strain · blind spot · illusions · migraine aura · photophobia · cataracts · glaucoma · hemianopia · light sensitivity · dry eyes · macular degeneration · aura · presbyopia · halos · retinal detachment · astigmatism
- symptomsfever, headache, pain, nausea, rash
- Migrainesmigraine, aura, throbbing, photophobia, phonophobia
- stroke symptomsslurred speech, arm weakness, hemiparesis, hemiplegia, dysarthria
- seizure symptomsseizure, seizures, convulsion, convulsions, shaking
visual disturbancenormal vision
Unimpaired sight capacity
perfect vision · clear sight · 20/20 vision · visual acuity · keen eyesight
visual, visually, vision, visions, visionary, visible, visibility, invisible, invisibility