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Definition of Nervus opticus

1. Noun. The cranial nerve that serves the retina.

Medical Definition of Nervus opticus

1. The optic nerve. The nerve carrying impulses for the sense of sight. Projection from the vertebrate retina to the midbrain. Embryologically, a CNS tract rather than a peripheral nerve. Popular experimental preparation for studies of regeneration of retino tectal projections in lower vertebrates and also for studies of glial cell lineage in CNS. Synonym: cranial nerve II. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Nervus opticus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Brain and Spinal Cord: A Manual for the Study of the Morphology and Fibre by Emil Villiger (1918)
"nervus opticus. The fibres of the optic nerve arise within the retina and are the axones ol the ganglion cells ..."

2. The Anatomy and Histology of the Human Eye by Abraham Metz (1868)
"... which lies beneath the nervus opticus, and forms a nerve ring, by connecting with that part of the nervus naso- ciliares which rests on the optic nerve, ..."

3. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones: Designed for the Use of by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1901)
"bipolar cells of the retina ; t, ganglion cells of the retina, the axones of which enter the nervus options: It', axone* from nervus opticus entering the ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"NT, nasal and temporal halves of retinae. NOS, nervus opticus sin. NOD, nervus opticus dext. FCS, fasciculus cruciatus sin. FLD, fasciculus lateralis dext. ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1886)
"NT, nasal and temporal halves of retinae. NOS, nervus opticus sin. NOD, nervus opticus dext. FCS, fasciculus cruciatus sin. FLD, fasciculus lateralis dext. ..."

6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... great gan- glionic masses, where they come into contact with the olfactory sacs ; secondly, the space which generally tory lobes; n, nervus opticus; o, ..."

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