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Dictionary » P » Pupil Pupilpupil 1. A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor. Too far in years to be a pupil now. (Shak) Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils. (L'Estrange) 2. A person under a guardian; a ward. 3. A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female. Synonym: Learner, disciple, tyro. See Scholar. Origin: F. Pupille, n. Masc. & fem, L. Pupillus, pupilla, dim. Of pupus boy, pupa girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil of the eye. (Science: anatomy) The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the note under Eye, and iris. (Science: medicine) pin-hole pupil, the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. Origin: F. Pupille, n. Fem, L. Pupilla the pupil of the eye, originally dim. Of pupa a girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil a scholar. ![]()
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Results from our forumRe: Natural selection is proven wrong... by how it idealizes itself. For our species there is all of art and culture where we find exaggerations of real life where the size of Betty Boops pupil alone is the size of her whole mouth yet we still recognize this image as being human and sexy. What produces this may be that it is epigenetically ...
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Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?... by how it idealizes itself. For our species there is all of art and culture where we find exaggerations of real life where the size of Betty Boops pupil alone is the size of her whole mouth yet we still recognize it as being human and sexy. What produces this may be that it is epigenetically possible ...
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New Home/Classroom Fruit Fly Speciation Experiment... by how it idealizes itself. For our species there is all of art and culture where we find exaggerations of real life where the size of Betty Boops pupil alone is the size of her whole mouth yet we still recognize it as being human and sexy. What produces this may be that it is epigenetically possible ...
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Future Human Evolution... It is unexpected there be attraction for much bigger than life eyes (way beyond baby proportion even) to the point where like with Betty Boop her pupil alone is the size of her whole mouth. But then again the resource poor "island effect" that makes small things like reptiles very large ...
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Re: Are tissues in the body capable of sensing pain? I would think it is more because the transition from dark to light is quicker than the pupil reacts. For a transitional moment pain is perceived until the eye adjust. and because the pupil had not yet reacted it has allowed light more than the its threshold level could ...
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