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What is the difference between the auditory nerve and optic nerve?
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Auditory nerve is eighth cranial nerve. It is called as vestibulocochlear nerve. It is the nerve to meant for hearing and balancing your body. The optic nerve is second cranial nerve. It carries sensory signals from your eye to the brain. It arises from the retina of the eye.
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What is the junction of the retina and optic nerve?
The junction between the retina and the optic nerve is the optic disc.
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.
What is another name for the optic nerve?
The optic disc
Where does the optic nerve begin?
It may surprise some people but the optic nerve begins near your testicles.
Which nerve is known as eye of hand?
optic nerve
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 is the junction of the retina and optic nerve?
The junction between the retina and the optic nerve is the optic disc.
Are your eyes connected to your brain by auditory nerves or optic nerves?
The Optic Nerve AKA Cranial Nerve II from eye to brain for sight and Craniel Nerves III (Oculomotor) and IV (Trochlear) for Eye movement.
What is the thickest cranial nerve?
The scaitic nerve is the longest and largest nerve.
Which cranial nerves carries only sensory information?
The question is asking what three cranial nerves are purely sensory in their function. Some relevant terms here are olfactory, optic, and auditory or vestibucochlear or acoustic nerves. The only three cranial nerves that are pure sensory in function are cranial nerve #1 : the olfactory nerve (smell), cranial nerve #2 : the optic nerve (sight), and cranial nerve #8 : the auditory/vestibucochlear/acoustic nerve (hearing).
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.
What part of brain connects brain and eyes?
Optic nerve. Well, it connects the retina to the brain. The muscles of the eye also connect to the brain, but not through the optic nerve.
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.
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
