(n.) The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.
(n.) A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.
(n.) A person under a guardian; a ward.
(n.) A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
(2) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(3) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
(4) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(5) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(6) The pupils at the Royal Blind School, Edinburgh, were surveyed and it was found that 40% of the 100 pupils had definitely inherited severe eye disease.
(7) The teacher said his school believed it was aware of all the pupils who had been present, and that Nuttall was not among them.
(8) While tonic pupil and reduced sweating can be attributed to the affection of postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic and sympathetic fibres projecting to the iris and sweat glands, respectively, the pathogenesis of diminished or lost tendon jerks remains obscure.
(9) For data sampled at a high rate (approximately 200 Hz) pupil velocity deviations from zero can simply be used, giving a satisfactory inaccuracy of about 5 ms. For data sampled at a low rate (less than 50 Hz), e.g.
(10) On neurological examination, he showed stupor,pupils and eye position were normal.
(11) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
(12) Posterior synechiae, pupil deformations, grave uveitis with hypotonia of 4-10 mm Hg are rapidly developing.
(13) Effects of topical administration of a single dose of 2% pilocarpine on intraocular pressure (IOP) and pupil diameter were evaluated in normotensive eyes of 10 clinically normal cats over 12 hours.
(14) Changes in pupil size indicated a substantial cholinergic effect on the iridal sphincter musculature.
(15) The nineteen pupils so discovered had more exercise-induced bronchial lability than equivalently exercised controls.
(16) Theory and practice of urology generates three types of professionals: doctors, who study at universities and obtain their licence by making a demonstration before the Protomedicato Tribunal; surgeons, who acquire their surgical techniques through a teacher-pupil training relationship outside universities; and empirics, who were in charge of performing surgical operations.
(17) The evolution and characteristics of diabetic rubeosis were studied in 33 eyes, and the following vascular abnormalities were found: (1) Dilated leaking capillaries around the pupil; (2) irregular or slow filling of the radial arteries; (3) superficial arborising newly formed vessels, usually starting in the chamber angle; and (4) dilatation and leakage of the radial vessels either before or after the development of neovascular glaucoma.
(18) Characteristic clinical features were present in 19 patients, including a gradual obtundation after the initial hemorrhage in 16 patients and small nonreactive pupils in nine patients (all with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 7 or less).
(19) Ed Miliband's education package is less generous than some hoped Read more The Labour leader said the coalition is directly to blame for a trebling in the number of classes with more than 30 pupils from 31,265 in 2010 to 93,345 in 2014, as a result of opening free schools in areas where new schools are not needed.
(20) Of these, 61.2% said they had been subjected to a pupil writing an insulting comment about them on a social network or internet site, 38.1% said a student had made comments about their competence or performance as a teacher, and 9.1% said they had faced allegations that they behaved inappropriately with pupils.
Pupillary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the pupil of the eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) In hypertensive rats (SHR) the density of alpha 2-adrenoceptors was reduced in the cerebral cortex, hypothalamus and medulla oblongata (20-27%), as was the dose-pupillary response curve for clonidine (1.8-fold).
(2) This permits pupillary stretching also in phakic eyes.
(3) Based upon specific pupillary findings one concludes that the processing load imposed on the attentional system by the search task is different for various schizophrenic subgroups.
(4) A cat which developed a change of temperament, with muscle tremors, ataxia and pupillary dilatation was suspected and later confirmed histopathologically to have a spongiform encephalopathy.
(5) We developed a new micro-iris retractor to achieve temporary intraoperative pupillary mydriasis in selected eyes undergoing pars plana vitreous surgery.
(6) On the photographs the pupillary diameter is measured under a magnifying lens.
(7) The intensity of the laser beam applied in cases of pupillary block with pseudophakic anterior chamber should be relatively lower than the intensity used in aphakic cases.
(8) Scleral depression with binocular indirect ophthalmoscopy will be easier to learn if the examiner observes the patient's pupillary reflex through the ophthalmoscope without looking through the hand-held condensing lens.
(9) Simultaneous contraction of the dilator and sphincter muscles of the iris in this case probably caused pupillary block and closure of the anterior chamber angle, in spite of the initially wide open angle.
(10) The expected mydriatic effect of atropine sulfate was seen in both species and, similarly, the pupillary light reflex was impaired in rats and dogs receiving either formulation of atropine sulfate at both dose levels.
(11) Phenoxybenzamine given intravenously inhibited the pupillary dilatation and the hypertensive responses to clonidine.
(12) No fluorescein passed through the pupillary margin or the peripheral iridectomy in this group of eyes.
(13) Pupil diameter and pupillary reaction remained unchanged with the application of Timolol.
(14) Thereafter the pupillary reaction steadily decreases, reaching a minimum after about 3.5--4 h in both dosages.
(15) The pupillary response to 50 microliter of pilocarpine 0.0625% in darkness, dim light, and bright light was measured photographically in 15 healthy adults.
(16) Examination revealed an afferent pupillary defect, retinal and choroidal emboli, retinal edema, and a macular "cherry red spot".
(17) The pupillary mydriatic response to phenylephrine and the forearm arterial vasoconstrictor response to intra-arterial norepinephrine did not change.
(18) The main clinical manifestations are disturbance in consciousness, hemiplegia or quadriplegia, and pupillary abnormalitites.
(19) This study utilized pupillography to determine the effect of conjunctival instillation of 0.5% timolol ophthalmic solution upon pupillary size and reaction.
(20) Examination of pupillary size in all cases and after dilation with cocaine and hydroxyamphetamine in 15 cases showed decreased sympathetic innervation to the iris dilator muscle in seven cases.