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Example sentences for "optic nerve"

  • These elongated cells form the retinal cells, and are connected with the central nervous system by nerve-fibres which constitute an optic nerve; the cells themselves may contain pigment.

  • The internal ganglion with which the optic nerve is in connection contains large ganglion cells, which, together with smaller ones, form the ganglionic layer of Berger.

  • The constriction to which the stalk or optic nerve is due takes place obliquely downwards and backwards, so that the optic nerves open into the base of the front part of the thalamencephalon (fig.

  • The eyes on the dorsal surface are formed of a cornea, a lens composed of 1-7 cells, and a retina surrounded by pigment; which is perforated in the centre by an optic nerve, the retinal elements being in the inverted position above mentioned.

  • Injury to the retina or optic nerve, occurring early in life, results in an under-development of the cortex in the occipital lobe.

  • Optic Nerve)] The eye is an optical instrument, like the camera.

  • The optic nerve, from before which an external muscle has been cut away, leaving its two attachments.

  • An artery which supplies blood to the crystalline lens, and which passes through the centre of the optic nerve.

  • The optic nerve, showing the sheath in which the nerve is enclosed.


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