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Bernard-Horner syndrome

Bernard-Horner syndrome (S. of Bernard, fr. physiologist, 1813-1878; J. F. Horner, швейц. ophthalmologist, 1831-1886; synonym: Horner a syndrome) – the combination of narrowing of a palpebral fissure, an enophthalmos and a miosis on one eye caused by disturbances of a sympathetic innervation of an eye; often is followed by vasomotor frustration on the same half of the face; it is noted at defeat on the party of cervical department of the same name of a sympathetic trunk, side horns of the I chest and the VIII a cervical spinal cord of segments, bonds between them, and also these segments of nerve pathways descending to side horns in a spinal cord and a trunk.

 
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