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Definition of Optic nerve

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

Definition of Optic nerve

1. Noun. (neuroanatomy) Either of a pair of nerves that carry visual information from the retina to the brain ¹

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Medical Definition of Optic nerve

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 Optic nerve

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1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"THE SECOND OR optic nerve. ciated with the temporal lobe, where it probably includes the gyrus hippocampi, uncus, and hippocampus major. ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"The operation was preceded by a division of the external rectus, and the sheath of the optic nerve was exposed by rotating the eye inward, and the incision ..."

3. Manual of the diseases of the eye by Charles Henry May (1914)
"The optic nerve may be divided into (1) an intraocular portion, the head of the optic nerve; (2) an orbital portion extending from the eyeball to the optic ..."

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 (1905)
"The Central Gray in Complete Atrophy of the optic nerve. ... in the gray substance of the third ventricle in a case of total atrophy of the optic nerve. ..."

5. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"Indirect injuries of the optic nerve occur not infrequently in consequence of injuries of the skull by the impact of a blunt object (a blow or fall upon the ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly (1872)
"... the optic nerve, the retina, enables us to make experiments; this retina being in such close contact with the eye, the optical part of the visual organ, ..."

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