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n. - A drug that causes the pupil of the eye to dilate.

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  • D. stramonium seeds contain about 0.2% of mydriatic alkaloids and about 15-30% of fixed oils.
  • I should fancy that the above particulars are sufficent to completely differentiate atropine from all the other mydriatic alkaloids.
  • Its clinical uses are primarily as a sedative, and applied locally (directly) as a mydriatic, which causes the pupil of the eye to dilate.
  • 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...
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