How to Use ciliary in a Sentence

ciliary

adjective
  • Because of its effects on the ciliary muscle responsible for focusing, a user’s sight may dim slightly while distant objects become blurry.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Rather than significantly stimulating the ciliary muscle, VIZZ only affects the pupils while avoiding the other problems.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Next, Kühl and Pacherres’ team wants to test corals under different conditions — especially under normal light-dark cycles — and to better understand the mechanism driving ciliary beating.
    Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Perhaps seawater’s viscosity — which decreases as temperature increases, making the water thinner —affects ciliary movements, Shapiro said.
    Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Aceclidine, a pupil-selective miotic, works without significantly stimulating the focusing (ciliary) muscle, creating a pinhole effect – which improves near vision without adverse outcomes seen in Vuity.
    New Atlas, 6 Aug. 2025

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