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Named after Douglas Argyll Robertson (1837–1909), a Scottish ophthalmologist and surgeon, who described the condition in the mid-1860s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Argyll Robertson pupil
Today it means: A sign of neurosyphilis in which a bilateral small pupil of the eye reduces in size when the patient focuses on a near object but does not constrict when exposed to bright light. Full definition →