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
- an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)
How To Use myosis In A Sentence
- I believe that the two most important instillations during the twenty-four hours of the number necessary to maintain this myosis are on retiring and if possible in the very early morning, some time between two and four o'clock. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
- In most instances the successful maintenance of a glaucomatous life, exclusive of operative interference, in addition to sustained myosis, demands the investigation of the patient's metabolism, which must be kept at the normal standard, the removal of the evil effects of auto-infection, as we are wont to call it, and especially the elimination of the cause which is responsible for the over plus tension of the arteries and of the veins. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
- Among the more common reasons are hormone imbalance caused by your body secreting too much estrogen or not enough progesterone; the effects of hormone pills; fibroids; polyps; adenomyosis (see page 209); infection; abnormal growth of the uterine lining (endometrium); chronic endometritis (inflammation or infection of the lining of the uterus); and thyroid hormonal changes. Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause
- Purpose : To evaluate transvaginal color Doppler sonography ( TVCDS ) in the diagnosis of adenomyosis.
- In some instances, endometrial tissue can also invade the muscle wall of the uterus, causing a problem known as adenomyosis. Getting Pregnant
- March 12, 2008 at 12:05 pm oar is dat myosis i be thinkin ob… hmmm sbeen long time sinz microbyolgy Mitosis - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
- But I am willing to admit, since the truth is out, that it has long been my custom in preparing an article of a humorous nature to go down to the cellar and mix up half a gallon of myosis with a pint of hyperbole. Further Foolishness
- In acute glaucoma, and every one knows that in this disease their action is often prompt and sometimes curative, eserin in a strength of one to four grains to the ounce may be instilled with sufficient frequency to establish myosis, and its action in this respect is enhanced if the congestion of the eye is lowered by measures to which Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
- Got an MRI done where I worked and it showed adenomyosis. In Defense of the Hysterectomy
- Purpose : To evaluate transvaginal color Doppler sonography ( TVCDS ) in the diagnosis of adenomyosis.