Medical Definition of Long ciliary nerve
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One of two or three branches of the nasociliary nerve, which by-pass the ciliary ganglion, supplying post-synaptic sympathetic fibres for the dilator pupillae muscle and sensory fibres for the ciliary muscles, iris, and cornea.
Synonym: nervus ciliaris longus.
(05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Long Ciliary Nerve
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