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miosis
/maɪˈoʊsɪs/
noun 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
unilateral
MIOSIS + NOUN
eyelid, ptosis
PREP.
in, in
ADV.
typically
Definitions
noun
1
Contraction of the pupil of the eye.
Horner's syndrome consists of typically unilateral miosis and eyelid ptosis, and absent forehead sweating.
noun
1
Alternative spelling of meiosis.
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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noun — reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in re
- myosis
noun — (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in
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Horner's syndrome consists of typically unilateral miosis and eyelid ptosis, and absent forehead sweating.
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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 a
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