Usually means: Muscle controlling lens shape, focusing.
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  1. ciliary muscle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. ciliary muscle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. ciliary muscle: Wiktionary
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  5. ciliary muscle: Dictionary.com
  6. Ciliary muscle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. ciliary muscle: Encyclopedia

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  1. ciliary muscle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Ciliary muscle, Muscle, ciliary: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Ciliary muscle: Merck Manuals
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  6. ciliary muscle: Medical dictionary
  7. Ciliary muscle, Muscle, ciliary: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ciliary muscle)

▸ noun:  a muscle controlling the eye's accommodation for viewing objects at varying distances

Similar:
ciliary body, iris dilator muscle, ciliary process, Müller's muscle, extraocular muscle, ciliary processes, oblique muscle, abducens muscle, orbitalis, orbicularis oculi, more...

Opposite:
extrinsic muscle, dilator muscle, radial muscle

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Similar:
ciliary body, iris dilator muscle, ciliary process, Müller's muscle, extraocular muscle, ciliary processes, oblique muscle, abducens muscle, orbitalis, orbicularis oculi, more...

Opposite:
extrinsic muscle, dilator muscle, radial muscle



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