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Definition of Mydriatics
1. mydriatic [n] - See also: mydriatic
Medical Definition of Mydriatics
1. Agents that dilate the pupil. They may be either sympathomimetic or parasympatholytics. The latter cause cycloplegia or paralysis of accommodation at high doses and may precipitate glaucoma. Mydriatics are used in eye diseases and to facilitate eye examination. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mydriatics
Literary usage of Mydriatics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1891)
"HOW TO USE mydriatics. BY EDWARD JACKSON, MD, PROFESSOR or DISEASES OF THE ...
And one thing to be constantly guarded against in the use of mydriatics is ..."
2. Diseases of the eye: A Handbook of Ophthalmic Practice for Students and by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1913)
"The Use of mydriatics.1—In addition to the use of the mydriatics in the treatment
of diseases of the eye—eg, iritis —these drugs are employed as aids of an ..."
3. A Manual of Personal Hygiene: Proper Living Upon a Physiologic Basis by Walter Lytle Pyle (1917)
"Persons advertising to examine the eyes of children and young adults accurately
without the use of mydriatics are claiming what is impossible even to the ..."
4. Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Nursing by Achilles Edward Davis, Beaman Douglass (1905)
"mydriatics. These are drugs which dilate the pupil, and the majority of them at
the same time paralyze the ciliary or focusing muscle, thereby suspending ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1862)
"... Effects of Opium and the mydriatics, Illustrated by Cases of Poisoning in the
Human Subject. By CHAS. ..."
6. Therapeutics by Armand Darier (1912)
"mydriatics and Cycloplegics. Atropin has been known since 1833. ... Discretion must
be exercised in the use of mydriatics, ..."
7. A Handbook of the diseases of the eye and their treatment by Henry Rosborough Swanzy (1892)
"Action of the mydriatics on the Pupil. Atropine. ... Strychnine and curare are
not, strictly speaking, mydriatics, as they only indirectly affect the pupil; ..."
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