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What is a difference between optic nerve and auditory nerve?
Optic nerve is found in the eye which sends the nerve impulses from the eye to the brain. The auditory nerve is present in the ear and sends the nerve impulses from the ear to the brain. They both have the same functions though they're present in different places.
What nerve carries signals from the from the retina to the brain?
Occipital nerve. It is the second cranial nerve.
What is the point where the optic nerve enters the eyeball?
Point where optic nerve enters eyeball is the optic disc.
Where does the optic nerve leave the eye?
The optic nerve exits the retina at the optic disc, otherwise known as the "blind spot".
What is another name for the optic nerve head?
Another name for the optic nerve head is the optic disc.
What nerve is responsible for visual signals to the brain?
optic nerve
What can the optic nerve be identified with?
The optic nerve can be identified with the sense of sight.
What is the junction of the retina and optic nerve?
The junction of the retina and optic nerve is called the optic disc or optic nerve head. This is where the optic nerve exits the eye and carries visual information from the retina to the brain. The optic disc is also known as the blind spot because it lacks photoreceptor cells and cannot detect light.
Does the optic nerve pass through the foramen ovale?
The natural blind spot (scotoma) is due to lack of receptors (rods or cones) where the optic nerve and blood vessels leave the eye. It is where the optic nerve leaves the retina not enter it. The optic disk or blind spot is where the optic nerve leaves the eye; you cannot use that field of vision because the optic nerve is there.
Which term describes the region in the eye where the nerve endings of the retina gather to form the optic nerve?
The term is "optic disc" or "optic nerve head." This is the point in the eye where the optic nerve exits and carries visual information to the brain.
Right optic nerve?
your optic nerve attatches your eye and brain together
What carries nerve impulses from the eye to the brain?
The optic nerve
