ciliary body

1. 1.

   the part of the tunic of the eye between the choroid coat and the iris

   “the ciliary body produces aqueous humor”

   Broadermembrane

   Part ofeye

Questions about ciliary body

What does ciliary body mean?

ciliary body means "the part of the tunic of the eye between the choroid coat and the iris".

Is ciliary body a common word?

ciliary body is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.