ciliary body in dogs

The thickened portion of the vascular tunic, which lies between the choroid and the iris, composed of ciliary muscle and ciliary processes. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the ciliary body is

The thickened portion of the vascular tunic, which lies between the choroid and the iris, composed of ciliary muscle and ciliary processes. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the dog.

Where the ciliary body is

It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What the ciliary body connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of anterior uvea and uvea.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the ciliary body. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as ocular ciliary body, anterior uvea, ciliary bodies and corpus ciliare. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001775, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the ciliary body?

It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What does the ciliary body connect to?

Part of: anterior uvea and uvea.

Is the ciliary body the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.