ciliary muscle in dogs

The ciliary muscle is a ring of smooth muscle in the middle layer of the eye that controls the eye's accommodation for viewing objects at varying distances and regulates the flow of aqueous humour through Schlemm's canal. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the ciliary muscle is

The ciliary muscle is a ring of smooth muscle in the middle layer of the eye that controls the eye's accommodation for viewing objects at varying distances and regulates the flow of aqueous humour through Schlemm's canal. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the ciliary muscle is

It sits in the head, within the muscular and sensory systems. 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 muscle connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. part of camera-type eye, ciliary body and smooth muscle of eye.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the ciliary muscle. 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 musculus ciliarus, Bowman`s muscles, ciliaris and musculus ciliaris. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001605, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: camera-type eye, ciliary body and smooth muscle of eye.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, eye muscle, muscle organ and smooth muscle of eye.

Questions

Where is the ciliary muscle?

It sits in the head, within the muscular and sensory systems. 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 muscle connect to?

Part of: camera-type eye, ciliary body and smooth muscle of eye.

Is the ciliary muscle 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.