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Mydriasis

Definition: Mydriasis

Mydriasis

Noun

1. Reflex pupillary dilation as a muscle pulls the iris outward; occurs in response to a decrease in light or certain drugs.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Mydriasis \My*dri"a*sis\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Mydriasis

DomainDefinition

Health

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. (references)

Medicine

Great dilatation of the pupil. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Mydriasis

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

An excessive dilation of the pupil due to disease, drugs, or the like.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mydriasis."

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Crosswords: Mydriasis

Specialty definitions using "mydriasis": Cyclopentolate. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Mydriasis" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (pupillary dilation).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mydriasis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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per Day

mydriasis

24
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Modern Translation: Mydriasis

Language Translations for "mydriasis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

rozšíření zřítelnic oèí. (various references)

   

Danish

  

mydriasis, pupiludvidelse, pupildilatation. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

mydriasis, pupilverwijding (pupil dilation, pupillary dilation), pupildilatatie (pupillary dilation). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

mustuaisten laajeneminen, mustuaisen laajeneminen, pupilladilataatio. (various references)

   

French

  

mydriase, dilatation pupillaire, corectasie, corédiastole. (various references)

   

German

  

Mydriasis (pupillary dilation), Pupillenerweiterung (dilation of the pupil). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μυδρίαση (pupil dilation, pupillary dilation), διαστολή της κόρης. (various references)

   

Italian

  

midriasi, dilatazione pupillare (pupillary dilation). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lheanaghey sooilley. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ydriasismay

   

Portuguese

  

midríase, corectasia. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

midriazã. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

midriasis (pupil dilation, pupillary dilation), platicoria, corodiastasis, corediastasis, corectasia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Mydriasis"

Words rhyming with "mydriasis" (pronounced 'My*dri"a*sis'): Abiogenesis, Absis, Actinomycosis, Adenosclerosis, Adipolysis, AEsthesis, Agamogenesis, Agenesis, Agennesis, Albuminosis, Amanuensis, Amaurosis, Amitosis, Ampelopsis, Amphiarthrosis, Amphigenesis, Amylogenesis, Amylolysis, Anabasis, Anacoenosis, Anacrusis, Anadiplosis, Anaesthesis, Anagnorisis, Anamnesis, Anamorphosis, Anapophysis, Anastomosis, Anemosis, Angioneurosis, Ankylostomiasis, Antanaclasis, Anthesis, Anthracosis, Anthropomorphosis, Antimetathesis, Antiperistasis, Antiphrasis, Antiptosis, Antipyresis, Antisepsis, Antithesis, Aparithmesis, Aphaeresis, Apheresis, Aphesis, Apodosis, Aponeurosis, Apophasis, Apophysis. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Mydriasis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-m-r-s-s-y"

-2 letters: disarms, dismays, midairs, missaid, myiasis, myriads, saiyids.

-3 letters: disarm, dismay, midair, missay, myasis, myriad, mysids, sadism, saiyid, sayids, simars, yairds.

-4 letters: amids, amirs, amiss, arsis, dairy, daisy, diary, drams, drays, imids, irids, maids, mairs, massy, midis, missy, mysid, radii, raids, sadis, saids, sards, saris, sayid, simar, simas, yaird, yards, yirds.

-5 letters: aids, aims, airs.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-m-r-s-s-y"
 

+3 letters: dissimilarly.

 

+4 letters: dissimilarity, dissimilatory, myocarditises.

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Alternative Orthography: Mydriasis


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 79 64 72 69 61 73 69 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01111001 01100100 01110010 01101001 01100001 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#121 &#100 &#114 &#105 &#97 &#115 &#105 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0079 0064 0072 0069 0061 0073 0069 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

479170847567857585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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