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Ciliary

adjective
1.
Relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye.
2.
Of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell.  Synonyms: cilial, ciliate.
3.
Of or relating to the human eyelash.  Synonym: ciliate.



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... enabled those who possessed these peculiarities of vision to see distinctly, by accurately converging the pencils of rays to a focus on the retina. Kepler likewise observed the power of accommodating the eye to different distances, and he ascribed it to the contraction of the ciliary processes, which drew the sides of the eyeball towards the crystalline lens, and thus elongated the eye so as to produce an adjustment of it for near objects. Kepler wisely declined to inquire into the way in which the mind perceives the images painted on the retina, and he blames Vitellio for ...
— The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler • David Brewster


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