Argyll Robertson pupils

Meaning

Noun

• pupils which narrow to track an object as it approaches the face, but which will not narrow in reaction to increased light ("accommodating, but not reactive"); a symptom of neurosyphilis stage syphilis infection.

Related

Similar words

• whore's eyes

Origin

• Named after Douglas Argyll Robertson (1837–1909), a Scottish ophthalmologist and surgeon, who described the condition in the mid-1860s in the context of neurosyphilis.