Optic Disk

"Optic Disk" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Optic Disk" by people in this website by year, and whether "Optic Disk" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 155 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2007 and 2008 and 2016
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