adjective
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of or relating to cilia
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of or relating to the ciliary body
Other Word Forms
- interciliary adjective
Etymology
Origin of ciliary
Example Sentences
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This region, known as the "ciliary marginal zone," is believed to support continuous eye growth, a pattern now also observed in the bristleworm retina.
From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2025
In which part of the human body would you find the ciliary muscle?
From Slate • Nov. 9, 2023
And scientists suspect that some forms of retinal degeneration, which can cause blindness, stem from malfunctioning ciliary genes, too, because “the photoreceptors of the eye are in fact just modified cilia,” Satir says.
From Scientific American • Dec. 10, 2014
Overlaying the ciliary body, and visible in the anterior eye, is the iris—the colored part of the eye.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The ciliary muscle is a ring of muscular fibre attached to the ciliary process close to the circumference of the suspensory ligament.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William
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