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    Accommodation

    Change in the thickness of the lens of the eye by the ciliary muscles. This adjustment process increases the refractive power of the lens, allowing objects at different distances to be seen clearly.

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    Lens

    The eye lens is a transparent, flexible structure which, thanks to its varying degree of curvature (see ciliary muscle and zonular fibers), enables the process of accommodation (focusing) and thus sharp vision at different distances, especially at close range.

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    Ciliary muscle

    Through its activity via the zonular fibers, the ciliary muscle changes the curvature of the lens, thereby enabling accommodation (adjustment).

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