MYDRIASIS
\mˈɪdɹɪˌasiz], \mˈɪdɹɪˌasiz], \m_ˈɪ_d_ɹ_ɪ__ˌa_s_i_z]\
Definitions of MYDRIASIS
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Dilation of pupils to greater than 6 mm combined with failure of the pupils to constrict when stimulated with light. This condition may occur due to injury of the pupillary fibers in the oculomotor nerve, in acute angle-closure glaucoma, and in ADIE SYNDROME.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
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mi-dr[=i]'a-sis, n. morbid dilatation of the pupil of the eye.--adj. MYDRIAT'IC.--n. a drug causing this.
By Thomas Davidson
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A name given by several writers to morbid dilatation of the pupol; and, by others to weakness of sightm produced by hydrophthalmia or superabundance pf humours, fron "moisture."
By Robley Dunglison
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[Greek] Dilatation of the pupil; especially, a morbid and excessive dilatation. M. may be Paralytic (produced by paralysis of the sphincter pupillae or its supplying nerve) or Spastic (or Irritative) (produced by spasm of the dilator fibres of the iris or stimulation of the sympathetic).
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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