Definition of Hyperacuity

1. Noun. sensory performance finer than the receptor grain ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hyperacuity

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperacuity

hyperacidity
hyperactitivity
hyperactivate
hyperactivated
hyperactivates
hyperactive
hyperactive child syndrome
hyperactively
hyperactiveness
hyperactives
hyperactivism
hyperactivities
hyperactivity
hyperacuities
hyperacuity (current term)
hyperacusia
hyperacusic
hyperacusis
hyperacute
hyperacute purulent conjunctivitis
hyperacute rejection
hyperadenosis
hyperadiposis
hyperadrenalcorticalism
hyperadrenalism
hyperadrenocorticalism
hyperadrenocorticism
hyperaemia
hyperaemic

Literary usage of Hyperacuity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"In most cases there is a marked hyperacuity, and some children are ... It had normal perception of light, and there was marked hyperacuity—a symptom which ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1898)
"In most cases there is a marked hyperacuity, and some children are ... It had normal perception of light, and there was marked hyperacuity—r symptom which ..."

3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"This was first suggested by Dr. Clarence Blake.2 There is some reason to think, too, that there is for a short time hyperacuity of hearing and also of ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"Normal condition of the sphincters and preservation of all the sensory functions, with hyperacuity of the sense of touch and diminution of acuity to the ..."

5. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1897)
"There is hyperacuity and she starts at sudden noises. The eyes outwardly present nothing peculiar; occasionally there is a little nystagmus, ..."

6. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"... by hypnotic hyperacuity of vision. The following is a summary and discussion of the case which I contributed to Mind for January 1887. MM. ..."

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