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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 the neurosyphilis stage syphilis infection.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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History
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.
