optic tract

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   the cranial nerve that serves the retina

   Synonymsoptic nervenervus opticussecond cranial nerve

   Broadercranial nerve

   Part ofvisual systemdiencephalon

Questions about optic tract

What does optic tract mean?

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

What is another word for optic tract?

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

optic tract 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.