DeCS

Descriptor English:

Optic Disk

Descriptor Spanish:

Disco Óptico

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	disco óptico
Entry term(s)	disco del nervio óptico mancha ciega papila del nervio óptico papila óptica
Scope note:	Porción del nervio óptico que se observa en el fondo de ojo mediante el oftalmoscopio. Está formado por la conjunción de todos los axones de las células ganglionares retinianas para convertirse en el nervio óptico

Descriptor Portuguese:

Disco Óptico

Descriptor French:

Papille optique

Entry term(s):

Point aveugle
Tache aveugle

Tree number(s):

A08.800.800.120.680.660
A09.371.729.690

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009898

Scope note:

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.

Annotation:

neopl: coord IM with OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS (IM) + histol type of neopl (IM); do not confuse "optic cup" ( = EYE /embryol) with "optic disk cupping" ( = OPTIC DISK + GLAUCOMA); inflammation = RETINITIS + OPTIC NEURITIS

Allowable Qualifiers:

AB malformations
AH anatomie et histologie
BS vascularisation
CH composition chimique
CY cytologie
DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
DG imagerie diagnostique
EM embryologie
EN enzymologie
GD croissance et développement
IM immunologie
IN traumatismes
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
PA anatomopathologie
PH physiologie
PP physiopathologie
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
SU chirurgie
UL ultrastructure
VI virologie

DeCS ID:

10078

Unique ID:

D009898

NLM Classification:

WW 280

Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL):

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Date Established:

1977/01/01

Date of Entry:

1974/12/12