optic radiation

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   a nerve pathway from the lateral geniculate body to the visual cortex

   Synonymsradiatio optica

   Broadernerve pathway

Questions about optic radiation

What does optic radiation mean?

optic radiation means "a nerve pathway from the lateral geniculate body to the visual cortex".

What is another word for optic radiation?

Close synonyms include radiatio optica. 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 radiation a common word?

optic radiation 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.