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. The parasympathetic fibers to the pupil are responsible for pupillary constriction. The fibers pass throug....
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Dilation of the pupil on the side of the lesion as part of a third nerve palsy; often due to herniation of the uncus of the temporal lobe through the tentorial notch. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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