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Eye Diseases > Optic Nerve Diseases > Optic Atrophy
Nervous System Diseases > Cranial Nerve Diseases > Optic Nerve Diseases > Optic Atrophy

Preferred term

Optic Atrophy  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • /genet permitted but do not confuse with OPTIC ATROPHIES, HEREDITARY

Scope note

  • Atrophy of the optic disk which may be congenital or acquired. This condition indicates a deficiency in the number of nerve fibers which arise in the RETINA and converge to form the OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC CHIASM; and optic tracts. GLAUCOMA; ISCHEMIA; inflammation, a chronic elevation of intracranial pressure, toxins, optic nerve compression, and inherited conditions (see OPTIC ATROPHIES, HEREDITARY) are relatively common causes of this condition.

In other languages

  • näköhermon surkastuma

    Finnish

  • atrophia nervi optici
  • näköhermon atrofia
  • näköhermon nystyn ohimonpuoleisen osan kalpeus
  • optikusatrofi
  • optikusatrofia
  • pallor partis temporalis papillae opticae
  • temporal blekhet av synnervspapillen
  • Optikusatrofi

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009896

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