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Meanings of eye floaters in English

Russian
глазные мушки
Portuguese
moscas volantes
Spanish
miodesopsias
Catalan
mosca volant
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Deposits of various size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility within the eye's vitreous humour, which is normally transparent.

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      глазные мушки
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      Examples for "floater"
      Examples for "floater"
      1
      The air-floater took off as soon as they climbed in, heading east.
      Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
      2
      The retrieval accuracy improved when greater proportions of the floater were selected.
      Pubmed
      3
      The air-floater rose ever higher, well out over the depression of Kalithras.
      Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
      4
      The air-floater drifted serenely across the skies, heading northeast toward the coast.
      Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
      5
      Irisis woke in the night, realising that the air-floater was not moving.
      Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
      1
      Someone in his position tends to attract floaters, hangers-on and glory hunters.
      Rock and Ice Magazine
      2
      A room specially ventilated for decomps, floaters, mummified corpses, and other aromatics.
      Monday Mourning
      3
      Is this what freedom looks like-dispersedfloaters in an uncharted sea?
      Wired
      4
      Weightlessness is an exhilarating novelty, but floaters soon begin to dream of walking.
      Packing for mars: the curious science of life in the void
      5
      There ain't no time to investigate floaters over-particular in the wilderness.
      The Hunted Woman