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It's the string like things on the back of the eye next to the optic nerve, it allows the eye to move around.

Human eye have ciliary muscles not eye muscles,which holds the eye lens in position.these muscles controls the focal length of eye lens.

They change the shape of the lens. (Novanet)

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