ciliary process

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noun Anatomy.

one of the folds on the ciliary body, connected with the suspensory ligament of the crystalline lens.

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Origin of ciliary process

First recorded in 1825–35

Words nearby ciliary process

ciliary ganglion, ciliary gland, ciliary margin, ciliary movement, ciliary muscle, ciliary process, ciliary reflex, ciliary ring, ciliary vein, ciliary zone, ciliary zonule

How to use ciliary process in a sentence

In the process, we get straightjacketed into emotionally distant, competitive lives.
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Or how much richer a few rich Mexicans are going to get in the process?
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Then we all have to do our part to engage the officers and our community, and hold everyone accountable in the process.
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“The process of getting the approval is too slow and is too cumbersome,” Rogers said.
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The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.
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On certain of the stems the fertile cone appears and the spores are ripened about June, after which the process withers.
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By the second process, it is made to the advantage of the issuer of the notes to hasten their withdrawal himself.
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The quickening of one part of the process necessitated the "speeding up" of all the others.
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That, too, is a process which in this changing new world of ours can never be completed.
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A smile of beatitude spread over his enormous countenance during the process.
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Medical definitions for ciliary process

ciliary process

Any of the radiating pigmented ridges on the inner surface of the ciliary body that, with the folds in the furrows between them, constitute the anterior portion of the ciliary body.