ciliary body
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 human body.
Where the ciliary body is
It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the ciliary body connects to
The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of anterior segment of eyeball, material anatomical entity and uvea.
Supply and innervation
Venous drainage: anterior ciliary vein.
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.
- Part of: anterior segment of eyeball, material anatomical entity and uvea.
- A kind of: anatomical structure.
- contains: ciliary muscle, ciliary processes, ciliary epithelium, ciliary stroma, pars plana of ciliary body and pars plicata of ciliary body.
- Develops from: neuroectoderm.
- Drained by: anterior ciliary vein.
- connects: ora serrata of retina.
- Continuous with: suspensory ligament of lens.
Questions
Where is the ciliary body?
It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the ciliary body connect to?
Part of: anterior segment of eyeball, material anatomical entity and uvea.
Is the ciliary body the same in other species?
Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.