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Reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in response to a bright light (or certain drugs) causing the pupil to become smaller

English: light reflex, pupillary reflex, miosis, myosis

(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)

English: meiosis, miosis, reduction division

An acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)

English: epidemic pleurodynia, epidemic myalgia, myosis, diaphragmatic pleurisy, Bornholm disease

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