Horner's syndrome
Meaning
Proper Noun
- A disorder of the sympathetic nervous system, characterized by ptosis of the eyelid accompanied by miosis.
Related
Similar words
- Bernard-Horner syndrome
- Claude Bernard syndrome
- Claude Bernard-Horner syndrome
- Horner syndrome
- oculosympathetic palsy
Origin
- Named after Johann Friedrich Horner, the Swiss ophthalmologist who first described the syndrome in 1869.
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