It may surprise some people but the optic nerve begins near your testicles.
The junction between the retina and the optic nerve is the optic disc.
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.
The optic disc
optic nerve
The optic disc
Occipital nerve. It is the second cranial nerve.
Point where optic nerve enters eyeball is the optic disc.
The junction between the retina and the optic nerve is the optic disc.
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.
The optic nerve can be identified with the sense of sight.
optic nerve
The optic nerve
your optic nerve attatches your eye and brain together
Optic Nerve (Cr. N. II)
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.
The optic nerve exits the retina at the optic disc, otherwise known as the "blind spot".
disease of the optic nerve (optic neuropathy)