myosis
Nouns
- (n) an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest) Bornholm disease, diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic myalgia, epidemic pleurodynia,
- (n) reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in response to a bright light (or certain drugs) causing the pupil to become smaller light reflex, pupillary reflex, miosis,