different between ciliary vs cyclotomy

English

Etymology

From cilium +? -ary.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?l.i.?.?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?l.i???.i/
• Rhymes: -?li??i, -?li???i

Adjective

ciliary (not comparable)

1. (biology, relational) Of, pertaining to or involving cilia.

2. (anatomy, relational)
   1. Of or pertaining to the eyelashes.
   2. Of or pertaining to the eyelid.
   3. Of or pertaining to the ciliary body.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “ciliary”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “ciliary”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Further reading

• ciliary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ciliary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ciliary at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

cyclo- +? -tomy

Noun

cyclotomy (countable and uncountable, plural cyclotomies)

1. (medicine) surgical removal of the ciliary muscle
2. (mathematics) the historical problems of dividing the circle into a given number of equal segments, and of constructing regular polygons
3. (mathematics) the analytical extraction of the complex roots of unity; a de Moivre number