Pharmacologic Substance
miotic
[ mahy-ot-ik ]
Subclass of:
Autonomic Agents
Definitions related to miotics:
  • Agent that causes the pupil of the eye to contract.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • An eye drop that constricts the pupil; used to treat glaucoma.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • Agents causing contraction of the pupil of the eye. Some sources use the term miotics only for the parasympathomimetics but any drug used to induce miosis is included here.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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