chiasma opticum

1. 1.

   the crossing of the optic nerves from the two eyes at the base of the brain

   Synonymsoptic chiasmaoptic chiasm

   Broaderchiasma

Questions about chiasma opticum

What does chiasma opticum mean?

chiasma opticum means "the crossing of the optic nerves from the two eyes at the base of the brain".

What is another word for chiasma opticum?

Close synonyms include optic chiasma, optic chiasm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chiasma opticum a common word?

chiasma opticum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.