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Definition: Pin-hole pupil
Pupil
\Pu"pil\, n. [F. pupille, n. fem., L. pupilla the pupil of
the eye, originally dim. of pupa a girl. See
Puppet, and
cf.
Pupil a scholar.] (Anat.)
The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the
eye. See the Note under
Eye, and
Iris.
[1913 Webster]
Pin-hole pupil (Med.), the pupil of the eye when so
contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium
poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. --Dunglison.
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