mydriatric

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1. alternativeAlternative form of mydriatic.

   In general, mydriatric drugs should be avoided; but if administered, a notation should be made on the patient’s chart.

   1981, Trauma, volume 23, page 102

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   Cyclopentolate hydrochloride is a mydriatric and cycloplegic drug which shares the pharmacologic effects of atropine on the eye.

   1984, American Hospital Formulary Service Drug Information, page 1096

   The third hurdle to the concept of pupil dilation in the primary care office is the misperceived burden that a single instillation of a mydriatric drop would impose on the doctor, office staff, and office routine.

   2003, “Chapter 35: Retinoblastoma and Other Malignant Intraocular Tumors / A. Linn Murphree and Laurie E. Christensen”, in Kenneth W. Wright, Peter H. Spiegel, editors, Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, 2nd edition, Springer, →ISBN, pages 584–585

   The pupil usually becomes large (i.e., mydriatric) and responds poorly to a light stimulus (i.e., “pupil-involving third nerve palsy”).

   2008 March 14, Brooke Swearingen, Beverly M. K. Biller, editors, Diagnosis and Management of Pituitary Disorders, Humana Press, →ISBN, page 119

   Contact sensitivity to a cycloplegic mydriatric agent and to its pharmacological components tropicamide and phenylephrine hydrochloride was reported on the finger of a nurse.

   2008 April 30, Robert Baran, Rodney P. R. Dawber, David A. R. de Berker, Ekhart Haneke, Antonella Tosti, editors, Baran and Dawber’s Diseases of the Nails and their Management, 3rd edition, Blackwell Science, →ISBN, page 338

   Exaggerated pupil dilation in response to a mydriatric drug has been proposed as a diagnostic biomarker of AD with controversial results.

   2019 January 30, Sushil Sharma, The Charnoly Body: A Novel Biomarker of Mitochondrial Bioenergetics, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 146

plural mydriatrics

1. alternativeAlternative form of mydriatic.

   Yocon* is indicated as a sympathicolytic and mydriatric.

   1993, Delaware Medical Journal, volume 65, page 289

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   Cocaïne.—Let us mention, finally, cocaïne as the most recent mydriatric we possess.

   1886, Edmund Landolt, The Refraction and Accommodation of the Eye and Their Anomalies, page 571

   How often do we envy the ophthalmologist for his ability to use mydriatrics and thus widen the pupil for easy exploration of the eye(-)ground!

   1959, Optometric World, volume 47, page 30

   He would not have questioned the petitioner, if he had been told he had been given a powerful mydriatric, a powerful drug which produces twilight sleep, a powerful drug that is a blocking agent, a powerful drug […] He does not know the condition of the eye of one who has been given a mydriatric of this kind.

   1964, United States of America Ex Rel. Townsend V. Ogilvie, pages 1234, 1254

   (b) Mydriatrics are those which dilate the pupil e.g., atropine and adrenaline. They are used for the treatment of the diseases of ciliary body and iris.

   1991, Principles & Practice of Nursing, Academic Publishers, published 2008, →ISBN, page 338

   5. Argyll Robertson pupil (usually bilateral; near reflex very markedly present; response to light reflex is very poor; recalcitrant to dilatation by mydriatrics)

   2012, Zia Chaudhuri, Murugesan Vanathi, editors, Postgraduate Ophthalmology, →ISBN, page 1564