miosis
English
Miosis due to opiate use
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μῡ́ειν (mū́ein, “to close the eyes”) + -osis.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /maɪˈoʊsɪs/
- Homophone: meiosis
Noun
miosis (countable and uncountable, plural mioses)
- Contraction of the pupil of the eye.
- Antonym: mydriasis
- Horner's syndrome consists of typically unilateral miosis and eyelid ptosis, and absent forehead sweating.
- (rhetoric) Litotes; diminution.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
- 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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