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Definition of Ciliary artery

1. Noun. One of several arteries supplying the choroid coat of the eye.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ciliary Artery

Literary usage of Ciliary artery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1890)
"It has been suggested that the presence of a so-called retino- ciliary artery might, in the event of embolism or thrombosis of the arteria centralis, ..."

2. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"<J, large anterior, and 6, small posterior branches of a short ciliary artery perforating the sclerotica; e, a long ciliary artery; d, choroid capillary ..."

3. A Text-book of Human Physiology: Including Histology and Microscopical by Leonard Landois, Albert Philson Brubaker (1905)
"... h, vorticose veins; t, short posterior ciliary vein, running only to the sclera; Jt, branch of the short posterior ciliary artery to the optic nerve; ..."

4. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"The lacrimal branch accompanies the lacrimal nerve; it supplies the lacrimal gland and the Sinus venosus sclerae Anterior ciliary artery Anterior ciliary ..."

5. An American Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat by Burton Alexander Randall, George Edmund DeSchweinitz (1901)
"... its radiating, Jfa, its circular títere: o', anterior ciliary artery; », canal of Schlemm; z, origin of ciliary muscle; o,/, anterior surface of iris; ..."

6. Morris's Human Anatomy: A Complete Systematic Treatise by English and by Henry Morris, James Playfair McMurrich (1907)
"Not infrequently, a branch from a short posterior ciliary artery pierces the optic papilla, and then courses over the adjoining retina (a cilio-retinal ..."

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