Optic-nerve meaning

Either of the second pair of cranial nerves that arise from the retina and carry visual information to the thalamus and other parts of the brain.
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Either of the second pair of cranial nerves, which connect the retina of the eye with the brain.
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Either of the second pair of cranial nerves that arise from the retina and carry visual information to the thalamus and other parts of the brain.
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Either of the second pair of cranial nerves, which carry sensory information relating to vision from the retina of the eye to the brain. Disease or injury of the optic nerve can result in partial or total blindness.
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(neuroanatomy) Either of a pair of nerves that carry visual information from the retina to the brain.
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Optic-nerve Sentence Examples

  • These dorsal eyes are very perfect in elaboration, possessing lens, retinal nerve-end cells, retinal pigment and optic nerve.

  • But they also receive the nerve fibres of the optic nerve.

  • Another cartilage or ossification, the posterior sclerotic ring, occurs within the walls of the posterior portion of the cup, and surrounds, especially in the Pici and in the Passeres, the entrance of the optic nerve.

  • Curiously enough, however, they differ from the cephalic Molluscan eye in the fact that, as in the vertebrate eye, the filaments of the optic nerve penetrate the retina, and are connected with the re surfaces of the nerve-end cells nearer the lens instead of with the opposite end.

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