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Meaning
noun an isolated area of diminished vision within the visual field
originFrom Late Latin scotoma, from Ancient Greek σκότωμα (skótōma), from σκότος (skótos, “darkness”). By surface analysis, scot- + -oma. The figurative sense is an extension from the literal sense, as if the mind, like an eye, cannot "see" certain things.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0