A small zone, band, or belt.
Example sentencesExamples
- The excluded volume of ciliary zonule digests contained abundant fibrillin microfibrils.
- This assemblage is equivalent to the kochaspid ‘zonule’ of Palmer and Halley.
- Division of subzones into zonules is the ultimate expression of such patterns.
- Dr. Zinn was honored for both his passions, with a flower named zinnia and a part of the human eyeball forever since known as ‘Zinn's zonule.’
- Accommodation is the process in which the ciliary muscles contract and relax tension on the zonules allowing the lens to change shape.