(a.) Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.
(a.) Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Uptake studies with 22Na were performed in cultured bovine pigmented ciliary epithelial cells, in order to characterize mechanisms of Na+ transport.
(2) CW Nd:YAG light transmitted by fiber optic cable and sapphire crystal was applied transsclerally to the ciliary body of pigmented and albino rabbits.
(3) A microdissection of the orbital nerves of the cat was made paying particular attention to the accessory ciliary ganglion.
(4) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(5) On the seventh day, when middle ear effusions were absent, the ciliary activity had recovered to normal.
(6) The favorable prognosis is due solely to the fact that women with an IUD have far less negative antecedents and that the EP probably occurred due to impaired ciliary action, reversible when the IUD is removed.
(7) Infected explants exhibited cytopathological changes that correlated well with cessation of ciliary activity.
(8) The degree of necrosis of ciliary epithelium and atrophy of ciliary processes are directly dependent on the dose of action.
(9) The appearance in aqueous humor of selected metabolites of arachidonic acid metabolism at various times was correlated with the influx of protein and myeloperoxidase activity in the iris-ciliary body.
(10) The present study demonstrates that a thromboxane A2 analog has no effect on ciliary motility, PGE2 has a direct ciliostimulatory effect, and a prostacyclin analog has a ciliostimulatory effect likely mediated by stimulation of the cyclooxygenase pathway within human cells.
(11) Light microscopic examination of implant sections immediately following exposure to 6 and 15 ppm HCHO detected cessation of ciliary activity, which recovered by 48 hr post-exposure.
(12) By means of immunoreactivity for spot 35 protein, a novel cerebellar Purkinje cell-specific protein, the regional heterogeneity among non-pigmented ciliary epithelial cells of rats was demonstrated with reference to the antero-posterior and crest-valley directions of individual ciliary epithelial folds in immature and mature eyes.
(13) In this system, metachrony is antilaeoplectic and ciliary waveform appears to be regulated independent of beat frequency.
(14) Of the other tissues of the eye, only the ciliary body contained measurable concentrations of canthaxanthin.
(15) The ciliary process vasculature consists of three different vascular territories with discrete arterioles and venules.
(16) There was marked destruction of the ciliary body in pigmented rabbit eyes, but no histologic effect was observed in albino rabbit eyes.
(17) The average width of the ciliary sulcus is 11.1 mm, indicating that a 12.5 mm IOL is of a sufficient size to be firmly fixed in this sulcus.
(18) The uveal tract, although comprising three anatomic sections such as the iris, the ciliary body and the choroid, may be regarded as a single functional unit, and is easily affected by several pathogenic agents that may act on either infectious, toxic and immune basis.
(19) The ciliary beat frequency provides a sensitive, physiologically relevant parameter for the in vitro study of these diseases.
(20) Like its counterparts from frog and rat, the ciliary enzyme was stimulated by guanine nucleotides, by forskolin, and by a variety of odorants in the presence of GTP.