Medical Dictionary

oculogyric crisis

noun

Medical Definition of OCULOGYRIC CRISIS

:  a spasmodic attack that occurs in some nervous diseases and is marked by fixation of the eyeballs in one position usually upward—called also oculogyric spasm

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