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mydriatic

NOUN
  1. a drug that causes the pupil of the eye to dilate; used to aid eye examinations

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  • A poisonous alkaloid, C21H26N2O3, derived from the bark of a tree, Corynanthe yohimbe, and formerly used as an aphrodisiac, a local anesthetic, and a mydriatic.
  • According to the early researches we could not discover any of these relationships which only become evident when we come to study the new discoveries which have been made in connection with the tropines, to which class belong both duboisine and hyoscyamine, which, although differing from atropine, are equally mydriatic in their action. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
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