| NCI | National Cancer Institute; noncriterion ischemic [animal]; nuclear contour index; nursing care integ... |
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| PRIND | prolonged reversible ischemic neurologic deficit |
| RIA | radioimmunoassay; reversible ischemic attack |
| RIND | reversible ischemic neurologic deficit |
| SDIHD | sudden death ischemic heart disease |
| intracranial part of optic nerve | <anatomy, nerve> The portion of the optic nerve between the optic canal and the optic chiasm. Synonym: pars intracranialis nervi optici. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| intralaminar part of optic nerve | <anatomy, nerve> The portion of the optic nerve as it passes through the lamina cribrosa of the sclera. Synonym: pars intralaminaris nervi optici. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intraocular part of optic nerve | <anatomy, nerve> The part of the optic nerve within the eye; it is divided into intralaminar, postlaminar, and prelaminar parts. Synonym: pars intraocularis nervi optici. (05 Mar 2000) |
| optic | Of or pertaining to the eye. Origin: Gr. Optikos = of or for sight (18 Nov 1997) |
| optic agnosia | The inability to recognise objects by sight; usually caused by bilateral parieto-occipital lesions. Synonym: optic agnosia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| optic ataxia | An inability to guide the hand toward an object using visual information; seen in Balint's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| optic atrophy | Atrophy of the optic disk resulting from degeneration of the nerve fibres of the optic nerve and optic tract. (12 Dec 1998) |
| optic atrophy, hereditary | An inherited disorder in which optic atrophy is associated with muscle weakness, peroneal muscular atrophy and, in some patients, lancinating pains. In these patients the peripheral sensory neurons are probably affected. (12 Dec 1998) |
| optic axis | The axis of the eye connecting the anterior and posterior poles; it usually diverges from the visual axis by five degrees or more. Synonym: axis opticus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| optic canal | The short canal through the lesser wing of the sphenoid bone at the apex of the orbit that gives passage to the optic nerve and the ophthalmic artery. Synonym: canalis opticus, foramen opticum, optic foramen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| optic capsule | The concentrated zone of mesenchyme around the developing optic cup; the primordium of the sclera of the eye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| optic chiasm | <anatomy> The anatomic point of crossing or decussation of the optic nerve fibres. most of the nerve fibres cross to the opposite side. (27 Sep 1997) |
| optic cup | The double-walled cup formed by the invagination of the embryonic optic vesicle; its inner component becomes the sensory layer of the retina, its outer layer, the pigment layer. Synonym: caliculus ophthalmicus, ocular cup. (05 Mar 2000) |
| optic decussation | <anatomy> The anatomic point of crossing or decussation of the optic nerve fibres. most of the nerve fibres cross to the opposite side. (27 Sep 1997) |
| optic disk | The portion of the optic nerve seen in the fundus with the ophthalmoscope. It is formed by the meeting of all the retinal ganglion cell axons as they enter the optic nerve. Because the retina at the optic disk has no photoreceptors there is a corresponding blind spot in the visual field. (12 Dec 1998) |