What does the ciliary muscle do when accommodation (focussing) in the eye occurs?

It contracts and the tension on the ciliary fibres increases making the eye lens less convex.
It relaxes and the tension on the ciliary fibres decreases allowing the eye lens to become more convex.
It contracts and the pull of the ciliary fibres decreases allowing the lens to become more convex.
It relaxes and the pull of the ciliary fibres increases to make the lens less convex.
It contracts and the pull of the ciliary fibres decreases allowing the lens to become more convex.  The ciliary muscle is doughnut-shaped with the lens in the “hole” and attached to the muscle by ciliary fibres (zonules). When the ciliary muscle contracts, it moves towards the lens which allows the ciliary fibres to reduce their tension so that the lens is stretched less. Hence it oozes to a more rounded shape.

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