Ciliary

What do we mean by ciliary?

Of, relating to, or resembling cilia. adjective

Of or relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye. adjective

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.

Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself adjective

Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms. adjective

Of or pertaining to a cilium adjective

Of or pertaining to eyelashes. adjective

Of or relating to the human eyelash adjective

Relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye adjective

Of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell adjective

Of or pertaining to a cilium.

Of or pertaining to eyelashes.

Words that are spelled similarly to ciliary:
ciliary, biliary, miliary, ciliare.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word ciliary:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe ciliary:
long, short, posterior, anterior, intense, cholinergic, primary, ophthalmic, normal, naso, nonpigmented, sebaceous, optico, deep, embryonic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective ciliary:
body, muscle, ganglion, action, activity, movement, region, epithelium, factor, motion, process, processes, artery, function, injection, margin, beat, spasm, nerve, frequency, sulcus, membrane, neuralgia, band, ligament, muscles, border, cells, motility, beating, zone, congestion, ganglia, reversal, neurons, flush, nerves, contracts, currents, apparatus, ring, arteries, contraction, melanoma, vessels, melanomas, portion, movements, dysfunction, mechanism, dyskinesia, block, circulation, bodies, zonule, current, fig, clearance, irritation, staphyloma, fibers, feeding, detachment, transport, wreath, feeders, shaft, paralysis, glands, axoneme, vein, plexus, circle, rows, tracts, disc, proteins, membranes, mechanisms, glaucoma, branch, necklace, bundle, locomotion, rootlets, escalator, cleft, bundles, tumors, rootlet, stroma, blepharitis, involvement, defects.

Words that sound like ciliary:
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