1) Human eye anatomy
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The ciliary body is the circumferential tissue inside the eye composed of the ciliary muscle and ciliary processes. It is triangular in horizontal section and is coated by a double layer, the ciliary epithelium. This epithelium produces the aqueous humor. The inner layer is transparent and covers the vitreous body, and is continuous from the neura...
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(from the article `eye, human`) The ciliary body is the forward continuation of the choroid. It is a muscular ring, triangular in horizontal section, beginning at the region called ...
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A part of the middle layer of the wall of the eye. The ciliary body includes the ring-shaped muscle that changes the size of the pupil and the shape of the lens when the eye focuses. It also makes the fluid that fills the eye.
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The structure in the eye that secretes aqueous humor, the clear fluid that fills the front of the eye. The ciliary body also contains the ciliary muscle, which changes the shape of the lens when the eye focuses on an object. It lies just behind the iris. Attached to the ciliary body are tiny fiber...
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<anatomy> Tissue that includes the group of muscles that act on the eye lens to produce accommodation and the arterial circle of the iris. ... The inner ciliary epithelium is continuous with the pigmented retinal epithelium, the outer ciliary epithelium secretes the aqueous humour. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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the thickened part of the vascular tunic of the eye, connecting choroid and iris, made up of the ciliary muscle and the ciliary processes. These processes radiate from the ciliary muscle and give attachment to ligaments supporting the lens of the eye.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. a thickened portion of the vascular tunic of the eye between the choroid and the iris; it consists of three parts or zones; orbiculus ciliaris, corona ciliaris, and ciliary muscle. Synonyms: corpus ciliare, anulus ciliaris
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Ciliary body: Part of the eye, the ciliary body is a thin vascular (blood vessel-filled) middle layer of the eye that is situated between the sclera (the white of the eye) and the retina (the nerve layer that lines the back of the eye, senses light, and creates impulses that travel through the optic nerve to the brain). The ciliary body is part of ...
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(sil;e-er;e) A portion of the choroid layer of the eye that secretes aqueous humor. It contains the ciliary muscle.
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The circular muscle located directly behind the iris of the eye.
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n] - the part of the tunic of the eye between the choroid coat and the iris
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anulus ciliaris, ciliary body A thickened portion of the vascular tunic of the eye between the choroid and the iris. It consists of three parts or zones: orbiculus ciliaris, corona ciliaris, and ciliary muscle.
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muscles that control the shape of the lens for near and far vision
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This is the muscle in the eyeball that controls the shape of the lens and so focuses your eyes. Very rarely, malignant melanoma can develop in the ciliary body.
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noun the part of the tunic of the eye between the choroid coat and the iris
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The section of uvea between the iris and choroid. It functions to produce aqueous and is the site of attachment for the lens zonules. Contraction of the ciliary body muscle results in lens accommodation for focusing.
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the part of the tunic of the eye, between the choroid coat and the iris, consisting chiefly of the ciliary muscle and the ciliary processes.
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the part of the eye that produces aqueous humor (the clear, watery fluid that moves in the eyeball).
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