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Sense Organs > Eye > Anterior Eye Segment > Ciliary Body
... > Body Regions > Head > Face > Eye > Anterior Eye Segment > Ciliary Body
Sense Organs > Eye > Uvea > Ciliary Body
... > Body Regions > Head > Face > Eye > Uvea > Ciliary Body

Preferred term

Ciliary Body  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Ciliare, Corpus
  • Ciliares, Corpus
  • Ciliari, Corpus
  • Ciliaris, Corpus
  • Corpus Ciliare
  • Corpus Ciliares
  • Corpus Ciliari
  • Corpus Ciliaris

Note

  • inflammation: consider CILIARY BODY (IM) + UVEITIS (IM) or UVEITIS, ANTERIOR (IM); diseases = CILIARY BODY (IM) + UVEAL DISEASES (IM); neoplasms = CILIARY BODY (IM) + UVEAL NEOPLASMS (IM) + histological type of neoplasm (IM); / blood supply consider also CILIARY ARTERIES; pigmented ciliary epithelium: coordinate CILIARY BODY with PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE

Scope note

  • A ring of tissue extending from the scleral spur to the ora serrata of the RETINA. It consists of the uveal portion and the epithelial portion. The ciliary muscle is in the uveal portion and the ciliary processes are in the epithelial portion.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002924

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