Myosis in a sentence as a noun

Most eukaryotes just use one of their chromosomes and both are needed for mytosis/myosis. Cells have no way of knowing which copy is the 'correct' one.

Myosis definitions

noun

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

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

See also: miosis