• A continuation of the optic nerves just dorsal to the optic chiasm, formed by temporal fibers of the ipsilateral optic nerve and nasal fibers of the contralateral optic nerve, that carries axons to nuclei within the thalamus and relays visual information to the primary visual cortex of the occipital lobe.
  NCI Thesaurus
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• Bundle of nerve fibers of the visual system from the optic chiasm to the lateral geniculate nucleus, with some fibers synapsing in the midbrain for reflex connections.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• Nerve fiber originating from the OPTIC CHIASM that connects predominantly to the LATERAL GENICULATE BODIES. It is the continuation of the VISUAL PATHWAY that conveys the visual information originally from the RETINA to the optic chiasm via the OPTIC NERVES.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
• Nerve trunk which is continuous with the optic chiasm and the lateral geniculate nucleus.
  Foundational Model of Anatomy
  University of Washington, 2017
• The nerves that travel from the optic chiasm (place in the brain where some of the optic nerve fibers cross) into certain parts of the brain involved in vision.
  NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021