Talk:Ciliary body

Dubious statement
The article says that the ora serrata secretes aqueous humor. I don't think this is correct, as it's merely the location of where the neural retina terminates. Can anyone clarify this matter?


 * You're right. According to Ophthalmology: A pocket Textbook Atlas, 2nd ed. (by G. Lang), pp. 207, the double-layered epithelium covering the ciliary body produces the aqueous humor. --Eleassar my talk 21:28, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Something wrong?
I think this article has got the shape of the lens and the seeing of distant and closer objects the wrong way round. Someone please clarify. I agree. I believe the effect of contraction should be to increase the ring diameter, flatten the lens, reduce its refractive index, and thus adjust the eye for distance seeing. Relaxing the muscle would reduce the ring diameter, thicken the lens, increase the lens's refractive index, and thus adjust the eye for near vision, such as reading. I used to be a vision scientist, which means I will look this up in a text book and post back. 2601:646:4104:8010:B87A:3A18:8F37:8194 (talk) 04:33, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Ciliary body discovered to have lymphatic circulation
According to an article published in Experimental Eye Research by "Prof. Yeni Yücel, a pathologist-scientist in U of T's Faculty of Medicine and St. Michael's Hospital" (University of Toronto, Canada) and "study co-author Dr. Neeru Gupta, Director of the Glaucoma Unit and Nerve Protection Unit at St. Michael's Hospital and Professor of Ophthalmology at U of T" Using molecular tools and three-dimensional reconstruction, the team of researchers identified a rich network of lymphatic channels in the ciliary body of the human eye. These studies were confirmed by electron microscopy.

University of Toronto. "Researchers Discover Novel Circulation In Human Eye, New Glaucoma Treatment Target." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 5 October 2009. .

cyclotomy in Greek: κυκλοτομή

 * 1) τομή κύκλου
 * 2) (ιατρική), (οφθαλμολογία) η χειρουργική αφαίρεση του ακτινωτού μυ/ciliary muscle  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2149:88AD:A100:94C9:3C0C:F946:480E (talk) 22:01, 12 September 2020 (UTC)