mydriatric

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 Wright, Kenneth W.; Spiegel, Peter H., editors, Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, second 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, Swearingen, Brooke; Biller, Beverly M. K., 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, Baran, Robert; Dawber, Rodney P. R. Dawber; de Berker, David A. R.; Haneke, Ekhart; Tosti, Antonella, editors, Baran and Dawber’s Diseases of the Nails and their Management, third 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, Sharma, Sushil, 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.

mydriatric (plural mydriatrics)

1. Alternative form of mydriatic.
   • 1886, Landolt, Edmund, 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, Chaudhuri, Zia; Vanathi, Murugesan, 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)