OPTIC NERVE

Malik Muhammad Ali Awan

Semester 8 – DPT
RCRS, Islamabad
 2 CRANIAL NERVE (OPTIC)
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• It is the special sensory nerve, related to

vision.
 OVERVIEW
• The nerve that transmits visual information
from the retina to the brain consisting of about
1.2 million nerve fibers.

• Each optic nerve carries fibers from the nerve

cells of the retina and through the optic
foramen enter the middle cranial fossa.
 ANATOMY
• Fibres from retina converge at optic disc & pass
backwards as the Optic nerve.

• Fibres from the nasal half of each retina decussate at

the optic chiasma, while fibres from temporal half
remain on the same side.

• The optic nerve, thus formed, contains fibres from the

temporal half of the retina of the same side & nasal
half of the retina of the opposite side.
• After passing through Optic chiasma the fibres
are referred to as optic tract, relay at the
lateral geniculate body.

• After passing through the lateral geniculate

body, the fibres then pass through the
posterior limb of the Internal capsule as Optic
radiations.
• One group of the optic radiations passes
through the temporal lobe & the other
through parietal lobe

• Finally they reach, their destination,

“Calcarine sulcus (visual area) of the occipital lobe”
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