NOUN
- reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in response to a bright light (or certain drugs) causing the pupil to become smaller
- (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)
How To Use miosis In A Sentence
- A stimulant action on the parasympathetic portion of the oculomotor nucleus (third cranial nerve) is responsible for pupillary miosis.
- Symptoms include nasal congestion, ptosis of one eyelid, miosis, and conjunctional hyperemia.
- In addition to an anti-Cartesian theory of perception mentioned earlier, this move requires an updated and enriched non-representational view of language and semiosis, together with a concept of ‘sensory act’.
- Hence truths and origins are effects of writing, too - products of human semiosis.
- Symptoms include nasal congestion, ptosis of one eyelid, miosis, and conjunctional hyperemia.
- After inhalation of vapour, respiratory symptoms, dimming of vision, and miosis are generally the first clinical features to appear.
- Although miosis was the most common symptom, severely poisoned patients developed CNS symptoms and cardiomyopathy.
- The second tendency is represented by the large number of works that draw their inspiration from a radical questioning of the structural principles defining semiosis.
- Oral pilocarpine is contraindicated in patients with uncontrolled asthma and in patients in whom miosis is undesirable, such as patients with acute iritis or narrow angle (angle closure) glaucoma.
- A stimulant action on the parasympathetic portion of the oculomotor nucleus (third cranial nerve) is responsible for pupillary miosis.
