What's the difference between pupil and pupillometer?
Pupil
Definition:
(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.
Pupillometer
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for measuring the size of the pupil of the pupil of the eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pharmacologic characteristics of a highly selective mu receptor agonist, sufentanil, were studied on the cat's pupillary responses (size, light reflex and fluctuations) measured with an infrared video pupillometer.
(2) To test the use of the "pupillometer tongue depressor" by auxiliary nursing was the goal of this study.
(3) Pupillary diameter was measured with a modified Essilor pupillometer.
(4) A continuously recording high-resolution pupillometer was used to measure changes in pupil size and pupil reactivity to temporally modulated light, following topical application of a phenylephrine HCl 5%-tropicamide 0.8% combination mydriatic (Phenyltrope).
(5) Incorporated into the instrument are Laurence's strabismometer, Haab's pupillometer, occluder, pinhole, and millimeter ruler.
(6) The relationship between dynamic pupillary function and peripheral nerve function was studied in 85 randomly-selected diabetic patients and 67 age-matched normals using a portable infrared pupillometer (Pupilscan Version 5).
(7) A simple card pupillometer is adequate for measuring changes in pupil size resulting from nalorphine.
(8) Pupillary responses were measured using a portable infrared pupillometer following 15 min dark adaptation, assessing resting vertical pupil diameter (RPD), light constricted diameter (MPD) and recovered final diameter (FPD) at the end of a 3 s measurement cycle.
(9) Various concentrations of SP (0.135, 1.35 and 135 micrograms per 100 microliters) were instilled into the conjunctival sac and pupillary area changes were evaluated by means of an electronic pupillometer.
(10) using a TV pupillometer, curve-fitting can be applied.
(11) Pupillary fluctuation induced by s.c. injection of morphine sulfate was studied in the rat using an infrared video pupillometer.
(12) A new pupillometer for measuring the size of the pupil of the human eye is described.
(13) A video infrared pupillometer was used to record pupillary responses 6-20 weeks after surgery.
(14) In 12 healthy volunteers, the effects of a single oral dose of nimodipine (40 mg) on pupil size and on the mydriasis induced by conjunctival instillation of tyramine and phenylephrine were studied by using a TV monocular infrared pupillometer.
(15) The pupillometer is simple and reliable in operation, has excellent response characteristics, and can be used over a broad range of research and clinical applications.
(16) Pupillary responses were elicited using a binocular photostimulator and recorded using a binocular television pupillometer.
(17) Pupil diameters were recorded for 15 min at five samples per second with a custom built video pupillometer.
(18) Pupillary dark adapted responses to a 0.5 s light stimulus were measured using a portable infrared pupillometer, for up to 24 h after dosing.
(19) The authors developed an automated method of pupil perimetry by linking an infrared video pupillometer to a Humphrey Field Analyzer.
(20) Pupil size monitoring was performed with a monocular, infrared TV pupillometer, and sural nerve stimuli were applied after the pain threshold had been measured as the flexion reflex threshold of the biceps femoris muscle (RIII reflex).