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ciliary muscle

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001605

The ciliary muscle is a ring of smooth muscle in the middle layer of the eye that controls the eye's accommodation for viewing objects at varying distances and regulates the flow of aqueous humour through Schlemm's canal. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciliary_muscle ]

Synonyms: musculus ciliarus

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Gray872.png

has related synonym

Bowman`s muscles, musculus ciliaris, ciliaris

id

UBERON:0001605

prefLabel

Ciliary muscle