Ciliary muscle
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ciliary-muscle-213-2488456
title:
Ciliary muscle
text:
The ciliary muscle is an intrinsic muscle of the eye formed as a ring of smooth muscle in the eye's middle layer, the uvea. It controls accommodation for viewing objects at varying distances and regulates the flow of aqueous humor into Schlemm's canal. It also changes the shape of the lens within the eye but not the size of the pupil which is carried out by the sphincter pupillae muscle and dilator pupillae. The ciliary muscle, pupillary sphincter muscle and pupillary dilator muscle sometimes ar
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Eye muscle which is used for focussing
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciliary_muscle
date created:
2005-01-24T02:32:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T08:50:30Z
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fields total:
13
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