oculogyric crisis

oculogyric crisis
oculogyric crisis n a spasmodic attack that occurs in some nervous diseases and is marked by fixation of the eyeballs in one position usu. upward called also oculogyric spasm

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a crisis occurring in epidemic encephalitis, postencephalitic parkinsonism, or secondary to use of antipsychotic agents; the eyeballs become fixed in one position, typically upwardly rotated, for minutes or hours.

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