Crossword-Solution: MYOTIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Myotic | a. | Producing myosis, or contraction of the pupil of the eye, as opium, calabar bean, etc. |
| Myotic | n. | A myotic agent. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MYOTIC | anagram | COMITY |
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| Drug, as opium, that contracts the pupil. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with MYOTIC (5)
There is a good deal of clinical evidence to indicate that in this type of glaucoma, as well as in the so-called sub-acute varieties, myotic activity is increased by a mixture of pilocarpin and eserin in the same solution, exactly as a mixture of arecalin and eserin is more potent than either of the drugs in separate solution.
This is not the place to introduce a discussion of the comparative value of iridectomy and myotic treatment in simple glaucoma as based upon statistical records.
Doubtless many patients with chronic glaucoma can be satisfactorily managed with myotic treatment, although personally I have always advocated operation when this could be performed, but it cannot always be performed.
The great trouble with myotic treatment is not its lack of efficiency, but the difficulty of carrying it out successfully on ambulant patients, even in the better walks of life.
Many authors, for example, Darier, Grandclement and others, are strong in their recommendation of adrenalin, particularly if this drug is added to the various myotic mixtures, and yet adrenalin is certainly not without danger in the treatment of glaucoma.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1948).