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... > Nervous System > Peripheral Nervous System > Peripheral Nerves > Cranial Nerves > Optic Nerve > Optic Disk
Sense Organs > Eye > Retina > Optic Disk
... > Body Regions > Head > Face > Eye > Retina > Optic Disk

Preferred term

Optic Disk  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Disc, Optic
  • Head, Optic Nerve
  • Nerve Head, Optic
  • Optic Disc
  • Optic Discs
  • Optic Nerve Head
  • Optic Nerve Heads
  • Optic Papilla
  • Optic Papillas
  • Papilla, Optic
  • Papillas, Optic

Note

  • neopl: coord IM with OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS (IM) + histol type of neopl (IM); do not confuse "optic cup" ( = EYE /embryol) with "optic disk cupping" ( = OPTIC DISK + GLAUCOMA); inflammation = RETINITIS + OPTIC NEURITIS

Scope note

  • The portion of the optic nerve seen in the fundus with the ophthalmoscope. It is formed by the meeting of all the retinal ganglion cell axons as they enter the optic nerve.

History note

  • 78(75); was see under OPTIC NERVE 1975-77

In other languages

  • näköhermon nysty

    Finnish

  • discus nervi optici
  • discus opticus
  • näköhermon papilla
  • näköhermon papilli
  • näköhermon pää
  • papilla
  • papilla nervi optici
  • papilli
  • Synnervspapill

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009898

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