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Definition of Second cranial nerve

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

Medical Definition of Second cranial 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 Second cranial nerve

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The accessory or nth cranial nerve arises with about half a dozen roots which extend often beyond the second cranial nerve; they collect into a thin stem ..."

2. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of Change (1994)
"Optic Nerve The second cranial nerve; controls sight. Oropharyngeal That part of the airway in humans Airway that consists of the mouth and the pharynx (see ..."

3. Vertebrate Embryology: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Arthur Milnes Marshall (1893)
"The optic, or second cranial nerve, will be best dealt with in tin- description of the development of the eye. ..."

4. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Robert Wiedersheim (1886)
"The first consists of the olfactory, or first, and the optic, or second cranial nerve; the second of the nerves of the eye-muscles, ie the oculomotor, ..."

5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"There is no regularity in the manner in which the nerves, both spinal and cranial, come out of the vertebral canal; the second cranial nerve comes out at ..."

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