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Ciliospinal center
	Sympathetic connections of the ciliary and superior cervical ganglia. (Ciliospinal center not labeled, but region is visible below superior cervical ganglion.)

The ciliospinal center (in Latin: centrum ciliospinale) is a structure which receives input from the pretectum, and has output to the superior cervical ganglion.

It plays a role in the control of the iris dilator muscle. It is also known as "Budge's center", or "centre".^[1]

It is associated with a reflex identified by Augustus Volney Waller^[2] and Julius Ludwig Budge in 1852.^[3]

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^ "ciliospinal centre from Online Medical Dictionary". http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?ciliospinal+centre. Retrieved 2007-06-05.
^ "A portrait in history: Augustus Volney Waller Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine - Find Articles". http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3725/is_200209/ai_n9114422. Retrieved 2007-06-05.
^ Ikeda H, Aruga T, Hayashi M, Miyake Y, Sugimoto K, Mastumoto K (1999). "Two cases in which the presence of ciliospinal response led to indecisiveness in the evaluation of brain death" (in Japanese). No To Shinkei 51 (2): 161–6. PMID 10198906.

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[0] "ciliospinal centre from Online Medical Dictionary". http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?ciliospinal+centre. Retrieved 2007-06-05.

[1] "A portrait in history: Augustus Volney Waller Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine - Find Articles". http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3725/is_200209/ai_n9114422. Retrieved 2007-06-05.

[2] Ikeda H, Aruga T, Hayashi M, Miyake Y, Sugimoto K, Mastumoto K (1999). "Two cases in which the presence of ciliospinal response led to indecisiveness in the evaluation of brain death" (in Japanese). No To Shinkei 51 (2): 161–6. PMID 10198906.

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