Question
Ciliary muscles of human eye can contract or relax. How does it help in the normal functioning
of the eye?
of the eye?
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Answer
Ciliary muscles get relaxed and the eye lens becomes thin when the eye is looking at a distant object, and these muscles contract and make the eye-lens thick when the eye is looking at a nearby object. Thus, ciliary muscles help in the normal functioning of the eye by changing thethickness of the eye-lens while focussing.
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