Noun: musca volitans
- Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humour and lens
"He often saw musca volitans when looking at a bright sky";
- muscae volitantes, floater
- A small constellation in the polar region of the Southern Hemisphere near the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon
- Type genus of the Muscidae: houseflies
- genus Musca
Type of: arthropod genus, constellation, symptom
Part of: family Muscidae, Muscidae
Encyclopedia: Musca, Xavier