mydriatric

English

Adjective

mydriatric (comparative more mydriatric, superlative most mydriatric)

1. Alternative form of mydriatic.
   • 1981, Trauma, volume 23, page 102:

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

   • 1984, American Hospital Formulary Service Drug Information, page 1096:

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

   • 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 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.

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

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

   • 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:

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

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

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

Noun

mydriatric (plural mydriatrics)

1. Alternative form of mydriatic.
   • 1886, Edmund Landolt, The Refraction and Accommodation of the Eye and Their Anomalies, page 571:

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

   • 1959, Optometric World, volume 47, page 30:

     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!

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

     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.

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

     (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.

   • 1993, Delaware Medical Journal, volume 65, page 289:

     Yocon* is indicated as a sympathicolytic and mydriatric.

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

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