miosis

Definitions

1. Contraction of the pupil of the eye.
   abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, countable, uncountable
2. Alternative spelling of meiosis.
   alt-of, alternative, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Horner's syndrome consists of typically unilateral miosis and eyelid ptosis, and absent forehead sweating.”

“Though some condemn rhetoric as the mother of lies, speaking more than the truth in hyperboles, less in her miosis, otherwise in her metaphors, contrary in her ironies, yet is there excellent use⟳ of all these […]”

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