SINCE 1828
Purkinje afterimage
noun
Pur·kin·je afterimage
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Medical Definition of Purkinje afterimage
: a second positive afterimage in a succession of visual afterimages resulting from a brief light stimulus and appearing most distinctly in a hue complementary to that of the original sensation
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