HORNER'S SYNDROME


Meaning of HORNER'S SYNDROME in English

noun

Usage: usually capitalized H

Etymology: after Johann F. Horner died 1886 Swiss ophthalmologist

: a syndrome marked by sinking in of the eyeball, contraction of the pupil, drooping of the upper eyelid, and vasodilation and anhidrosis of the face, and caused by injury to the cervical sympathetic innervation

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