1. (noun) an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)

• bornholm disease
• diaphragmatic pleurisy
• epidemic myalgia
• epidemic pleurodynia

2. (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

• light reflex
• miosis
• pupillary reflex

1. (noun) an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)

• epidemic disease

2. (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

• inborn reflex
• innate reflex
• instinctive reflex
• physiological reaction
• reflex
• reflex action
• reflex response
• unconditioned reflex

1. (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

• miotic
• miotic
• myotic
• myotic