Noun myosis has 2 senses
  1. 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)
    --1 is a kind of epidemic disease
  2. 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
    --2 is a kind of reflex, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction
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