optic nerve

What does optic nerve mean?

optic nerve means "the cranial nerve that serves the retina".

What is another word for optic nerve?

Close synonyms include nervus opticus, 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 optic nerve a common word?

optic nerve 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 optic nerve come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.