ARGYLL-ROBERTSON PUPIL
\ˈɑːɡʲa͡ɪlɹˈɒbətsən pjˈuːpə͡l], \ˈɑːɡʲaɪlɹˈɒbətsən pjˈuːpəl], \ˈɑː_ɡʲ_aɪ_l_ɹ_ˈɒ_b_ə_t_s_ə_n p_j_ˈuː_p_əl]\
Definitions of ARGYLL-ROBERTSON PUPIL
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By William R. Warner
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A pupil which does not respond to light, but contracts in accommodation : seen in locomotor ataxia.
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one which is myotic and responds to accommodative effort, but not to light.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A type of pupillary reaction named by Argyll Robertson which is insensitive to light but freely active to accommodation. Seen in interference with the oculopupillary pathways, chiefly in cerebral syphilis, but also present in other conditions, though rarely.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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