(UK, education) A grant awarded by the government to schools in England for the benefit of disadvantaged students.

A student who attends a boarding school but does not board there, continuing to live at home

plural of day pupil

plural of blown pupil

plural of prostitute's pupil

(pathology) A bilateral small pupil of the eye that reduces in size when the patient focuses on a near object but does not constrict when exposed to bright light. It is a sign of neurosyphilis.

A pupil of the eye that exhibits unusually little constriction when a bright light is swung from the unaffected eye to the affected eye. It can be caused by a lesion of the optic nerve.

Adie syndrome

(medicine) 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.

plural of Marcus Gunn pupil