Ciliary body

Ciliary body
Ciliary body
	Anterior part of the human eye, with ciliary body near bottom.
Details
Part of	Eye
System	Visual system
Artery	long and short posterior ciliary arteries
Identifiers
Latin	corpus ciliare
MeSH	D002924
TA98	A15.2.03.009
TA2	6765
FMA	58295
	Anatomical terminology

The ciliary body is a part of the eye that includes the ciliary muscle, which controls the shape of the lens, and the ciliary epithelium, which produces the aqueous humor. The aqueous humor is produced in the non-pigmented portion of the ciliary body.^[1] The ciliary body is part of the uvea, the layer of tissue that delivers oxygen and nutrients to the eye tissues. The ciliary body joins the ora serrata of the choroid to the root of the iris.^[2]

^ Standring, Susan; Gray, Henry (2008). Gray's anatomy : the anatomical basis of clinical practice. [Edinburgh]: Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-443-06684-9. OCLC 213447727.
^ Cassin, B. and Solomon, S. Dictionary of Eye Terminology. Gainesville, Florida: Triad Publishing Company, 1990.

[1] Standring, Susan; Gray, Henry (2008). Gray's anatomy : the anatomical basis of clinical practice. [Edinburgh]: Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-443-06684-9. OCLC 213447727.

[Cassin-2] Cassin, B. and Solomon, S. Dictionary of Eye Terminology. Gainesville, Florida: Triad Publishing Company, 1990.

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Ciliary body

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