optic disk

1. 1.

   the point where the optic nerve enters the retina; not sensitive to light

   Synonymsblind spotoptic disc

   Broaderpoint

   Part ofretina

Questions about optic disk

What does optic disk mean?

optic disk means "the point where the optic nerve enters the retina; not sensitive to light".

What is another word for optic disk?

Close synonyms include blind spot, optic disc. 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 optic disk a common word?

optic disk 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.