optic nerve

English

Noun

optic nerve (plural optic nerves)

(neuroanatomy) Either of a pair of nerves that carry visual information from the retina to the brain

Hypernyms

cranial nerve

See also

optic chiasm

Translations

nerve

Catalan: nervi òptic m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 視神經 (zh), 视神经 (zh) (shìshénjīng)
Czech: zrakový nerv (cs) m
Finnish: näköhermo
French: nerf optique (fr) m
Galician: nervio óptico m
German: Sehnerv (de) m
Hungarian: látóideg (hu)

Icelandic: sjóntaug (is) f
Italian: nervo ottico m
Japanese: 視神経 (ししんけい, shishinkei)
Latvian: redzes nervs m
Portuguese: nervo óptico (pt) m, nervo ótico m
Russian: зри́тельный нерв (ru) m (zrítelʹnyj nerv)
Spanish: nervio óptico (es) m
Swedish: synnerv (sv)

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