Defenition of the word myosis

• Defenition of the word myosis

  • an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)
  • reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in response to a bright light (or certain drugs) causing the pupil to become smaller

Synonyms for the word myosis

• • Bornholm disease
  • diaphragmatic pleurisy
  • epidemic myalgia
  • epidemic pleurodynia

Hypernyms for the word myosis

• • epidemic disease
  • inborn reflex
  • infectious disease
  • innate reflex
  • instinctive reflex
  • physiological reaction
  • reflex
  • reflex action
  • reflex response
  • unconditioned reflex

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