punctum caecumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

punctum caecum

1. (anatomy) The blind spot in the eye.
   • 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados

     It was perhaps three minutes later when an excited gentleman in the state of disrobement that is tacitly regarded as falling upon the punctum caecum in times of fire, flood and nocturnal emergency shot out of the door of No. 7 and bounding up the intervening flights of steps pounded with the knocker on the door of No. 9.