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myosis   (TTS Sound)

The noun myosis has 2 senses

• epidemic pleurodynia, epidemic myalgia, myosis, diaphragmatic pleurisy, Bornholm disease -- (an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest))


• light reflex, pupillary reflex, miosis, myosis -- (reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in response to a bright light (or certain drugs) causing the pupil to become smaller)