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Page 110
... optic disk . They leave the globe as the optic nerve , in which they maintain an orderly arrangement in the sense that fibres from the macular zone of the retina occupy the central portion , the fibres from the temporal half of the ...
... optic disk . They leave the globe as the optic nerve , in which they maintain an orderly arrangement in the sense that fibres from the macular zone of the retina occupy the central portion , the fibres from the temporal half of the ...
Page 111
... optic tract fibres make synapses with nerve cells in the respective layers of the lateral genicu- late body , and the axons of these third - order nerve cells pass upward to the calcarine fissure ( a furrow ) in each occipital lobe of ...
... optic tract fibres make synapses with nerve cells in the respective layers of the lateral genicu- late body , and the axons of these third - order nerve cells pass upward to the calcarine fissure ( a furrow ) in each occipital lobe of ...
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... optic nerve . The optic nerve , which carries about one million nerve fibres , leaves the globe from the back of the eye and passes through the apex of the orbit into the cranial cavity . It is surrounded by an extension of the ...
... optic nerve . The optic nerve , which carries about one million nerve fibres , leaves the globe from the back of the eye and passes through the apex of the orbit into the cranial cavity . It is surrounded by an extension of the ...
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would become the principal reserve asset while gold | 36 |
Excretion the elimination of the waste products of | 50 |
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