Sentence examples for visual nerve from inspiring English sources

By contrast, individuals who had meningitis tend to have a sensorineural hearing loss and a vision loss due to damage to the visual nerve.

A visual impairment can be caused by damage to the eye itself, damage to the visual nerve, or damage to the visual cortex in the brain.

In the human eye, for example, the visual nerve fibres in the eye converge on an area of the retina to form the optic nerve and thus create a blind spot; squids and octopuses do not have this defect.

Another tactic involves inserting microelectrodes into the primary visual cortex--the main part of the brain responsible for processing visual signals and stimulating visual nerve cells with electrical impulses.

In a low-resolution stack, the arrangement of the visual nerve fibers and neuropils is analyzed.

Neurological systems involved at onset were grouped into motor (pyramidal), sensory, cerebellar, brainstem, visual (optic nerve) and bowel/bladder; for patients not seen at onset, DSS scores (Kurtzke, 1955) were determined retrospectively from outside records.

In one subchronic exposure study (Mattsson et al. 1998), a significant increase in amplitude and latency was observed in one peak of the visual-evoked potential responses from a flash stimulus at 5,424 mg/m, but histopathological lesions were not observed in the examination of central and peripheral brain structures (e.g., visual cortex, optic nerve) of the visual system.

A recent study reported that NGF eye drops reduced RGC loss in patients with advanced glaucoma, and indicated long-lasting improvements in visual field, optic nerve function, contrast sensitivity and visual acuity.

In the paper, Mriganka Sur and his colleagues claimed they'd achieved success in a Frankensteinian experiment: They'd surgically re-wired the visual nerves of young ferrets into regions of the animals' brains that usually process sound.

Furthermore, the visual and optic nerve changes between the initial and final stages were assessed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test.

Cranial nerves: Optic nerve- Visual acuity 20/30 both eyes; gross visual fields normal at bedside.