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Definition of Optic chiasma
1. Noun. The crossing of the optic nerves from the two eyes at the base of the brain.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Optic Chiasma
Literary usage of Optic chiasma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"... retina of that eye ; but the two optic nerves meet, ventral to the floor of
the third ventricle, cross each other at the optic chiasma (Fig. 138, op. ..."
2. The Journal of Comparative Neurology by Denison University (1903)
"The optic chiasma and the Post-optic Commissure. This subject has been treated
in two papers by Dr. BURTON D. MYERS. In the first' the chiasma alone was ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The nerves of opposite sides are connected together at the optic chiasma, ...
The left optic nerve and the of the opposite side to form the optic chiasma. ..."
4. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"The optic chiasma lies at the anterior end of the interpeduncular fossa, ...
The cerebral peduncles, the optic tracts and the optic chiasma enclose a deep ..."
5. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"It extends from the anterior superior surface of the optic chiasma upward and
... The optic chiasma is a quadrilateral sheet of nerve fibers whose anterior ..."
6. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"The optic chiasma and Optic Tracts.—The optic nerve emerges from the bulbus oculi
at the nasal side of the posterior pole and, after entering the cranium ..."
7. A Text-book of physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"The amount and character of the decussation taking place in the optic chiasma
differs in different animal types, the differences having relation to the ..."
8. An Introduction to Neurology by Charles Judson Herrick (1922)
"Identically the same nerve-fibers which make up the so-called optic nerves
peripherally of the optic chiasma are called the optic tracts centrally of that ..."
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