Key facts
- Part of
- Eye
- System
- Visual system
- Artery
- long and short posterior ciliary arteries
- Latin
- corpus ciliare
- Mesh
- D002924
- Ta98
- A15.2.03.009
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
14,292 papers- Ciliary body.Microscopy research and technique · 1996
- Imaging of the Ciliary Body: A Major Review.Seminars in ophthalmology · 2022
- Ciliary body melanoma: a special challenge.Canadian journal of ophthalmology. Journal canadien d'ophtalmologie · 2004
- Ciliary body ablation: where are we and how did we get here?Survey of ophthalmology · 1996
- Clinicopathologic analysis of 32 ciliary body tumors.Japanese journal of ophthalmology · 2021
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- uvea
- Image
- Blausen 0390 EyeAnatomy Sectional.png
- Connects with
- zonule of Zinn
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- arterial supply
- long posterior ciliary arteries
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C12345
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
The ciliary body is a part of the eye that includes the ciliary muscle, which controls the shape of the lens, and the ciliary epithelium, which produces the aqueous humor. The aqueous humor is produced in the non-pigmented portion of the ciliary body. The ciliary body is part of the uvea, the layer of tissue that delivers oxygen and nutrients to the eye tissues. The ciliary body joins the ora serrata of the choroid to the root of the iris.
Structure
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ciliary body” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.