Ciliary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or resembling cilia.
  • adj. Of or relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a cilium
  • adj. Of or pertaining to eyelashes.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself
  • adj. Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or resembling cilia; hair-like; filamentous; specifically, belonging to the eyelids: as, the ciliary feathers of birds (that is, feathers situated on the edges of the eyelids).
  • Furnished with cilia; ciliated.
  • Pertaining to cilia; characteristic of cilia; done by cilia: as, ciliary action; ciliary motion.
  • Related, associated, or connected in some way with the eye; situated in or about the eye: applied to various delicate anatomical structures.
  • In the eye of a cephalopod, a thickening of the epithelium on the anterior and posterior surfaces of the connective tissue which invests the ciliary muscle and extends to the crystalline lens. Also called corpus epitheliale.
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  • adj. of or relating to the human eyelash
  • adj. relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye
  • adj. of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell
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    ciliary muscle   
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