ciliary

IPA: sˈɪɫiɛri

Examples of "ciliary" in Sentences

We vertebrates have ciliary cells, c-opsin, and a phosphodiesterase pathway.
Some invertebrates also have both, but they use the rhabdomeric receptors for vision and the ciliary receptors for circadian rhythms.
You have a muscle in your eye called the ciliary muscle, that contracts to make the eye’s lens fatter and able to zoom in to objects closer up.
As the choroid approaches the front part of the eyeball, its parts become folded upon themselves into a series of ridges, called ciliary processes.
Modifications from the full body covered norm include a single ring of cilia, grouped ciliary organelles called cirri, and restriction of cilia to feeding tentacles.
For the first time, scientists have linked the growth of new brain cells–induced by a compound known as ciliary neurotrophic growth factor CNTF–with weight loss in mice.
In our eyes, we primarily use the ciliary photoreceptors for vision, but we also maintain a set of rhabdomeric photoreceptors that have the job of sensing light to set circadian rhythms.
In doing so it had cleared all the gunk from my arteries, tweaking my ciliary muscles so my eyesight is as good as anyone's, and generally made me into the healthiest human being on the planet.
In addition to differentiated retinal cells, the amphibian eye contains a population of self-renewing retinal stem cells located in the retinal periphery in a region called the ciliary marginal zone or CMZ.