Wiktionary
n. (optic nerve English)
Usage examples of "optic nerves".
Het Masteen stood at the locus of a circle of organic control diskeys -- displays from the fiber-optic nerves running throughout the ship, holo displays from onboard, astern, and ahead of the treeship, a communicator nexus to put him in touch with the Templars standing duty with the ergs, in the singularity containment core, at the drive roots, and elsewhere, and the central holo-simulacrum of the treeship itself, which he could touch with his long fingers to call up interactives or change headings.
The optic nerves from the two eyes extend backward and join at the midbrain.
The android also carried a packet filled with the long strands of artificial organic optic nerves, lazily adrift in preservative fluid.
More than a year later, the final supercomputer was carefully nudged into place and connected by a spinal cord of secure fiber optic nerves to the main body of the agency, a mile away.
The pressure must be affecting her optic nerves, not her visual cortex.
The fact that there are many more retinal cells than optic nerves to which they connect means that each nerve integrates information from many individual cells.
The optic nerves terminate in a region deep in the brain called the lateral geniculate.
And after each blast, lingering pressure in his optic nerves left him utterly blind.
It was as if their brains were connected along the firing of their optic nerves.
Inside the case were two human eyes, eyelids attached, severed at the optic nerves.
He gags, then squeezes his eyes shut as tightly as he can, screaming into his regulator as his eyeballs are pulled away from their optic nerves, bulging out of their socket.
Got these little EMP-drivers around the lenses, work your optic nerves direct.
The optic nerves of hybrids' eyes possessed a natural sensitivity to high light levels, and so their vision functioned more efficiently in a semigloom.