(v. i.) To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
(v. t.) To view with attention; to gaze on .
(n.) A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
(n.) The object gazed on.
Example Sentences:
(1) EEG arousal diminished as a function of distance, while arousal for direct gaze was always higher than for averted gaze, whatever the distance.
(2) In this study downward gaze was more severely disturbed than upward gaze.
(3) Join us for a spot of future gazing as we discuss: The challenges and opportunities colleges and training providers will face over the next five years International expansion The role of FE in higher education New ways to diversify New technology – the possibilities and risks.
(4) The sniping followed an article by Cameron in the Sunday Times , in which he called on the coalition to provide a "strong, decisive and united government" in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for "division and navel-gazing" at a time of social and economic insecurity.
(5) Absence of a functioning velocity storage network in bottom-dwelling teleosts (as in Amphibia) may be related to the sporadic, slow locomotion of these species and the resulting small requirements for continuous gaze stabilization during self-motion at higher velocities.
(6) We examined a 55-year-old right-handed woman showing transient coma, amnesia, mild right hemiparesis, vertical gaze impairment and aphonia without aphasia.
(7) It is suggested that a theory similar to the phenomenological theory which accounts for the fly's gaze may account for the human eye's movement during an observation of Müller-Lyer figures.
(8) In both non-aligned and head-aligned modes, subject instructions pertaining to the second target light concerned only gaze; there was no requisite head position.
(9) As Nelson Mandela lay in the open casket , his features both familiar and strange, a crisply suited Robert Mugabe gazed down at him through his dark glasses for a long, still, silent moment.
(10) The authors review the neuroanatomic and neurophysiologic features relevant to supranuclear gaze mechanisms.
(11) All patients had conjugate gaze deviation to the right.
(12) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
(13) This task thus requires monkeys to direct their gaze to the location of a remembered visual cue, controls the retinal coordinates of the visual cues, controls the monkey's oculomotor behavior during the delay period, and also allows precise measurement of the timing and direction of the relevant behavioral responses.
(14) Interview with Donald Hutera In other words "Maliphant's choreography slips under our guard, arouses our curiosity and hones our gaze, without us realising the force of its aim."
(15) Standardized surface swab, gaze pad contact, Rodac plates, and burn wound biopsy cultures were obtained twice per week.
(16) When head-free and head-fixed pursuit were compared, striking similarities were seen for both slow phase gaze velocity gain and phase, indicating that gaze control during smooth pursuit is largely independent of the degree of associated head movement.
(17) A 23-year-old man sustained severe macular damage by sun gazing during a hallucinogenic drug-induced state.
(18) Extracellular recordings from single neurons of the prestriate area V3A were carried out in awake, behaving monkeys, to test the influence of the direction of gaze on cellular activity.
(19) As she gazes down from her plane at the sprawling Amazon jungle below, she will hope and pray that, with a number of giant infrastructure projects planned in the region, history is not about to repeat itself.
(20) The main acute symptoms included disorders of consciousness, hypersomnia and sometimes vertical gaze paresis.
Upgaze
Definition:
(v. i.) To gaze upward.
Example Sentences:
(1) Any correlation between the extent of hypertropia on muscle exam and upgaze intraocular pressure changes is examined.
(2) The distribution of increase in IOP on upgaze values in 46 patients with noninfiltrative ophthalmopathy (classes 0 to 1) was the same as in the control group.
(3) We measured IOP with Goldmann's applanation tonometry in two positions: the primary position, when the patient looks straight ahead and then on upgaze.
(4) The magnitude of HD did not correlate with the degree of abduction defect, and the HD was maximal to the side of the paretic lateral rectus muscle in 14 of 16 cases, with 2 cases greatest on direct lateral gaze; 6 cases, lateral upgaze; and 6 cases, lateral downgaze.
(5) Contralateral ptosis and impaired upgaze were observed in two patients; one of them showed additional damage to the posterior commissure.
(6) Four cases with identical clinical findings have been initially described by Ouvrier in Australia (5) as "benign paroxysmal tonic upgaze of childhood".
(7) Volume replacement was satisfactory in 83.8% with a single operation, and motility of the artificial eye was at least 14 degrees of horizontal gaze in 86%, at least 7 degrees of upgaze in 95%, and at least 14 degrees of downgaze in 62.6%.
(8) We suggest that paradoxical lid elevation after sustained upgaze may be a clinically useful sign in distinguishing Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome from myasthenia gravis.
(9) We investigated an unselected series of 55 patients with treated or untreated hyperthyroid Graves' disease, assessing their clinical and laboratory status and ophthalmological findings, including the difference in intraocular pressure (dIOP) between upgaze and straight gaze using applanation tonometry.
(10) The effect of Whitnall's ligament on the levator aponeurosis can be observed as a "tenting" of the aponeurosis; the change in vector force is persistent in upgaze and downgaze.
(11) The 23 patients with infiltrative ophthalmopathy (classes 2 to 4) had increased frequency of higher increases in IOP on upgaze values compared with the other two groups.
(12) Maximal detection of these IOP abnormalities requires that patients be examined at 25 degrees upgaze.
(13) The important clinical signs are lid lag, lid retraction, raised IOP on upgaze and proptosis, the first three being the most common.
(14) Two and a half months later, there was downbeat nystagmus in the primary position and downgaze and upbeat nystagmus in upgaze.
(15) Upgaze paresis remained unchanged, and adduction of the right eye was absent.
(16) This patient is unique due to paradoxical ocular movements on attempted upgaze and the absence of other major craniofacial anomalies.
(17) At 25 degrees upgaze, these figures rose to 54% for the GD patients and 37% in HT patients.
(18) Upgaze response could not be elicited in any of the infants.
(19) A successful unilateral inferior oblique weakening produces 20 prism diopters less hypertropia or more hypotropia in the field of action and has less effect away from the muscle's field of action; a bilateral weakening of the inferior oblique produces 20 prism diopters less exotropia or more esotropia in upgaze.
(20) One patient had unbeating nystagmus that diminished with upgaze, downgaze, or convergence.