Medical Definition of Corpus ciliare
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Tissue that includes the group of muscles that act on the eye lens to produce accommodation and the arterial circle of the iris.
The inner ciliary epithelium is continuous with the pigmented retinal epithelium, the outer ciliary epithelium secretes the aqueous humour.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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