pupil
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- noun
- /ˈpjuːpəl/
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pupila
- When exposed to bright sunlight, your pupil constricts to reduce the amount of light entering.
- pupil of the eye
- dilated pupils
When we are relaxed, our pupils tend to constrict.
- When we are relaxed, our pupils tend to constrict.
- But it was, it was alien though, with a pupil and like an iris.
- And then that's going to be your iris and your pupil and all that good stuff in there.
- Do you mean drugs and the eyeball pupil thing?
- Is he, you know, dilating your pupils?
- So when we look at driving, lighting variation destroys almost completely your ability to use pupil diameter.
- Another very, very powerful feature of this response is that our our pupils of our eyes, the dark parts of our eyes get big.
Examples
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Ms Sumner, your pupils are dilating.
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I was expecting my pupils to be like super dilated and they weren't.
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So is it harder to see the pupil in that eye?
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I want to show you this was I want to see if I can show you make my pupils smaller and bigger, okay?
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If your pupils react, you are human.
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About two hours ago I went to the eye doctor and I got my eyes, my pupils dilated.
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The pupils will dilate, making the eyes appear black.
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In a few minutes, his pupil will dilate, allowing more light to pass through to the retina.
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You see the pupil?
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Green eyes, vast pupils.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pupil for the dark round part of the eye comes from the Latin pupilla, meaning 'little doll', because people saw a tiny reflection of themselves in the eye like a small doll. So the name stuck for the small opening that lets light into the eye.