mirror image

image /im·age/ (im´ahj) a picture or concept with likeness to an objective reality.

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body image  the three-dimensional concept of one's self, recorded in the cortex by perception of everchanging body postures, and constantly changing with them.

false image  that formed by the deviating eye in strabismus.

mirror image  one with right and left relations reversed, as in the reflection of an object in a mirror.

Purkinje-Sanson mirror images  three reflected images of an object seen in observing the pupil of the eye: two on the posterior and anterior surfaces of the lens, one on the anterior surface of the cornea.

motor image  the organized cerebral model of the possible movements of the body.

real image  one formed where the emanating rays are collected, in which the object is pictured as being inverted.

virtual image  a picture from projected light rays that are intercepted before focusing.

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mirror image

[mir′ər]

Etymology: L, mirare, to look at, imago

1 an image formed by a reflection in a plane mirror.

2 a kind of reversed asymmetry of characteristics often found in sets of monozygotic twins.

3 chemical molecules with the same composition but with asymmetric arrangement of the atoms.