nervus opticus

What does nervus opticus mean?

nervus opticus means "the cranial nerve that serves the retina".

What is another word for nervus opticus?

Close synonyms include optic nerve, second cranial nerve, optic tract. 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 nervus opticus a common word?

nervus opticus 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nervus opticus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.