miosis vs innate reflex

innate reflex vs miosis

miosis and innate reflex both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
miosis	Yes	No	No	No
innate reflex	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, innate reflex is a hypernym of miosis; that is, innate reflex is a word with a broader meaning than miosis:

miosis: reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in response to a bright light (or certain drugs) causing the pupil to become smaller
innate reflex: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus

Other hypernyms of miosis include inborn reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex.

miosis (noun)	innate reflex (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	an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
(genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)

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