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Meaning of miosis | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/maɪˈoʊsɪs/

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

Ελληνικά μύωση
Español miosis
Italiano miosi
Português miose

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 […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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