ciliary body

American  

noun

Anatomy.

1. 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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ciliary body British  

noun

1. the part of the vascular tunic of the eye that connects the choroid with the iris

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ciliary body

Along with the ciliary body and iris, the choroid forms the uveal tract.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

The lens is attached by the zonules to the ciliary body that contains the ciliary muscles that control the shape of the lens for accommodation.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

Overlaying the ciliary body, and visible in the anterior eye, is the iris—the colored part of the eye.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Coordination of the skeletal muscles for convergence and coordination of the smooth muscles of the ciliary body for accommodation are referred to as the accommodation–convergence reflex.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Eventually the ciliary body becomes very much reduced in thickness, is flattened out, the ciliary processes reduced in size and the blood vessels disappear or are reduced much in caliber.

From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Nance, Willis O.