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Definition of Optic chiasm
1. Noun. The crossing of the optic nerves from the two eyes at the base of the brain.
Definition of Optic chiasm
1. Noun. (anatomy) The part of the brain where the optic nerves partially cross. ¹
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Medical Definition of Optic chiasm
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Optic Chiasm
Literary usage of Optic chiasm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones: Designed for the Use of by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1901)
"Even in the anatomy of Vesalius we find a human case reported in which the optic
chiasm was entirely absent (Fig. 508), the right optic nerve going bodily ..."
2. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1885)
"ABSENCE OF THE optic chiasm AND OTHER CEREBRAL COMMISSURES; TEMPORAL HEMIANOPIA.
BY WS LITTLE, MD, PHILADELPHIA. DR. A. VV. WILMARTH, assistant physician ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1910)
"From the optic chiasm the optic tracts wind as flattened bands obliquely caudo-
... Course of the fibres in the optic chiasm The course of the fibres in the ..."
4. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"The course of the optic fibres from the retina to the brain may IIP divided into
three sections, namely, the optic nerve, the optic chiasm, and the optic ..."
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