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op·tic nerve

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Princeton's WordNet2.8 / 4 votes

  1. optic nerve, nervus opticus, second cranial nerve, optic tractnoun

    the cranial nerve that serves the retina

    Synonyms:
    second cranial nerve, nervus opticus, optic tract

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Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. optic nerve

    Synonyms:
    2nd cranial nerve

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  1. Rubens Belfort Jr.:

    Because the lesion is at the portion of the optic nerve that is inside the eye.

  2. Emily Chew:

    The retina is an extension of the brain, a third of your brain functions for vision and the retina lines the eyeball and travels back via an optic nerve all the way to the brain.

  3. Jake Olson:

    When I was 8 months old, I was diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer called retinoblastoma, when the doctors found my cancer, it was completely taking over my left eye ... the greatest fear is the cancer spreading through the optic nerve to the brain.


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