How To Use pilocarpine In A Sentence
- Parasympathomimetic drugs such as pilocarpine constrict the pupil and ‘pull’ on the trabecular meshwork, increasing the flow of aqueous out of the eye.
- The action of pilocarpine upon the involuntary muscles is caused in the same manner as upon the sudoriferous glands - by impressing the myo-neural receptors.
- When patients first instil pilocarpine they often experience a brow ache, which tends to reduce with longer term use of the drug.
- The plant's leaves contain pilocarpine, a rare alkaloid used in the treatment of glaucoma and when diagnosing cystic fibrosis.
- In the sweat test, a small electric current is used to carry the chemical pilocarpine into the skin of the child's forearm.
- Oral pilocarpine is contraindicated in patients with uncontrolled asthma and in patients in whom miosis is undesirable, such as patients with acute iritis or narrow angle (angle closure) glaucoma.
- When patients first instil pilocarpine they often experience a brow ache, which tends to reduce with longer term use of the drug.
- Doctors use such drugs as pilocarpine and eserine to treat Glaucoma. Brief Look at Glaucoma
- _ -- Wash out the stomach freely; a hypodermic injection of apomorphine as an emetic, followed by hypodermic injections of pilocarpine or morphine. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
- He returned to the lab and cooked up a brew consisting of some exotic poisons: atropine (a naturally occurring alkaloid of atropia belladonna or deadly nightshade), sparteine (a compound derived from the European shrub Scotch broom, Cytisus scoparius), and pilocarpine hydrochloride (an alkaloid found in the leaves of a South American shrub, Pilocarpus jaborandi). The Very Nutty Professor
