miosis

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maɪˈoʊsɪs/
  • Homophone: meiosis
  • Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek μύω (múō, “to close the eyes”) +‎ -osis.

Alternative forms

Noun

miosis (countable and uncountable, plural mioses)

  1. Contraction of the pupil of the eye.
    Antonym: mydriasis
    Horner's syndrome consists of typically unilateral miosis and eyelid ptosis, and absent forehead sweating.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek μείωσις (meíōsis).

Noun

miosis (countable and uncountable, plural mioses)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of meiosis.
    • 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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