optic chiasma in English
noun
1
the X-shaped structure formed at the point below the brain where the two optic nerves cross over each other.
Nerve trunks from the two eyes carry the signals from each eye to the optic chiasma , a crossing over point located a few centimeters back from the eyes.
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optic chiasm
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1. Traumatic bitemporal hemianopia is not only caused by mechanic lesions of the optic chiasma: vascular insufficiency has to be considered too.
2. When the neurons pass from the retina to the brain and reach the optic chiasma, some cross and some do not, so that visual images are projected to the wrong hemisphere of the brain.