Hutchinson's pupil

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Hutchinson's pupil is a clinical sign in which the pupil on the side of an intracranial mass lesion is dilated and unreactive to light, due to compression of the oculomotor nerve on that side.

The sign is named after Sir Jonathan Hutchinson.

External links

Hutchinson's pupil at Who Named It?