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ciliary
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ciliary \Cil"ia*ry\, a. [Cf. F. ciliaire.]
(Anat.) Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.
(Biol.) Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context anatomy English) Of or pertaining to a cilium 2 Of or pertaining to ''eyelashes''.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Ciliary may refer to:
- Cilium – projections from cells that have locomotive or sensory functions
- Ciliary body - the circumferential tissue inside the eye
- Ciliary muscle - eye muscle used for focusing
- Ciliary processes - folded layers in the anterior of the eye
- Latin for Eyelash
Usage examples of "ciliary".
Clay Wallace of New York, who published a very ingenious little book on the eye about twenty years ago, with vignettes reminding one of Bewick, was among the first, if not the first, to describe the ciliary muscle, to which the power of adjustment is generally ascribed.
The ciliary muscle is generally thought to effect the change of form of the crystalline.
Some of the practitioners were willing to concede the possibility that the ciliary muscles did, in addition, change to some extent the shape of the lens.
Some of the practitioners were willing to concede the possibility that the ciliary muscles did, in addition, change to some , extent the shape of the lens.
That portion of the choroid layer is the ciliary body, and this contains the ciliary muscle.
The aqueous humor leaks into the anterior chamber from nets of capillaries in the ciliary body and out again through a small duct near the point where the iris meets the cornea.
When that happens, the ciliary muscles contract, and this lessens the tension on the suspensory ligaments.
Whenever defects in focusing are present, particularly in astigmatism, extra work is thrown on the ciliary muscle as well as the muscles that move the eyeballs.
While the greater portion of the eyeball is concerned in the focusing of light, the crystalline lens, operated by the ciliary muscle, serves as the special instrument of accommodation.
Show how the iris, the crystalline lens, the retina, the ciliary muscle, and the cornea aid in seeing.
Those provers who have taken experimentally a tincture made from the wood and bark and leaves of the Blackthorn, all had to complain of sharp pains in the right eyeball and accordingly the diluted tincture is found, when administered in small quantities, to give signal relief for ciliary neuralgia, arising from a functional disorder of the structures within the eyeball.
Its stimulant action on the iris and ciliary muscle is employed when they are weak or paralysed.
Snell reports a case in which a piece of steel was imbedded and encapsulated in the ciliary process twenty-nine years without producing sympathetic irritation of its fellow, but causing such pain as to warrant enucleation of this eye.
Clay Wallace of New York, who published a very ingenious little book on the eye about twenty years ago, with vignettes reminding one of Bewick, was among the first, if not the first, to describe the ciliary muscle, to which the power of adjustment is generally ascribed.
In general, morbid affections of the surface of the eye, and of the ciliary structures concerned in the accommodative act, are prone to be accompanied with excessive secretion of tears.