a small muscle that helps the lens focus for various distances and also keeps the drainage pathway open by tugging on a specialized area of sclera (scleral spur), which is attached to the trabecular meshwork.
a circular band of smooth muscle fibers situated in the ciliary body and serving as the chief agent in accommodation when it contracts by drawing the ciliary processes centripetally and relaxing the suspensory ligament of the crystalline lens, permitting the lens to become more convex
Attached to lens capsule, it changes the shape of the lens as it contracts during accommodation. See accommodation.
This is a muscle inside your eyeball which changes the shape of the lens in order to accommodate.
This muscle controls the accommodation of the lens. When the muscle relaxes, the lens adjusts for distance vision. When it contracts, the lens moves and changes shape for near vision.
the smooth muscle portion of the ciliary body that is responsible for controlling the lens’ shape as it narrows or thickens to focus on images at different distances.
a ring of muscle inside the eye which adjusts the shape of a flexible lens to focus the eye at different distances.
a ring of muscle around the lens, narrowing its diameter and thickening it to allow a stronger focus (accommodation) on a target
The eye's focusing muscle that allows the crystalline lens to perform its function of accommodation. Go to Top
Works in conjunction with the zonule fibers to adjust the lens when focusing on an object.
The ciliary muscle is a smooth muscle that affects zonular fibers in the eye (fibers that suspend the lens in position during accommodation), enabling changes in lens shape for light focusing. When the ciliary muscle contracts, it releases the tension on the lens caused by the zonular fibers (fibers that hold or flatten the lens). Therefore, relaxation of the ciliary muscle causes a flattening of the lens.
