- homatropine by Dalton Allen
... an anticholinergic similar to atropine; h. Hydrobromide. Is used as a ophthalmic mydriatic and cycloplegic, and h. Methylbromide. Is used as an inhibitor of gastric spasm and secretion.
- atropine by Kennedy Mills
An alkaloid obtained from the belladonna plant. It is an antimuscarinic drug. In the eye it acts as a mydriatic and as a cycloplegic. It paralyses the pupillary sphincter and the ciliary muscle by preventing the action of acetylcholine at the parasympathetic nerve endings. See acetylcholine; cycloplegia; mydriatic.
- cycloplegia by Elise Cook
... stroke. Paralysis of accommodation, as induced by certain ophthalmic drugs to allow examination of the eye. It causes pupillary dilation and relaxation of accommodation. See also cycloplegic.
- cyclopentolate hydrochloride by Morgan Shelton
An antimuscarinic (or parasympatholytic) drug used as a short duration mydriatic and cycloplegic. Common concentrations are 0.5% and 1.0% as cycloplegic and 0.1% as mydriatic. See acetylcholine; cycloplegia; mydriasis.
- atropine by Kira Harmon
... rate by blocking the vagus nerve, and to act as a preanesthetic antisialagogue, an antidote for various toxic and anticholinesterase agents and as an antisecretory, mydriatic, and cycloplegic.