See Also: Ciliary muscle(health)
ciliary muscle(medicine)
ciliary(medicine)
ciliary(dictionary)
ciliary zonule(medicine)
ciliary movement(medicine)
ciliary zone(medicine)
ciliary wreath(medicine)
Body, ciliary(health)
ciliary veins(medicine)

splenatic (iou) and ciliary muscle (medicine)


splenatic (iou)



splenatic adjective.E17.
[medieval Latin splenaticus var. of late Latin spleneticus SPLENETIC: see -IC.]
Seated in the spleen. Only in E17.
Irritable, ill-tempered; caused by irritation or ill humour. M17-E18.

ciliary muscle (medicine)


ciliary muscle
<anatomy> The smooth muscle of the ciliary body; it consists of circular fibres (Muller's muscle) and radiating fibres (meridional fibres, or Brucke's muscle); action, in contracting, its diameter is reduced (like a sphincter), reducing tensile (stretching) forces on lens, allowing it to thicken for near vision (accommodation).

Synonym: musculus ciliaris, Bowman's muscle, ciliary ligament.