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Definition of Optic cup

1. Noun. (embryology) a two-walled cuplike depression that develops into the pigmented and sensory layers of the retina.

Medical Definition of Optic cup

1. The double-walled cup formed by the invagination of the embryonic optic vesicle; its inner component becomes the sensory layer of the retina, its outer layer, the pigment layer. Synonym: caliculus ophthalmicus, ocular cup. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Optic cup

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Development of the Chick: An Introduction to Embryology by Frank Rattray Lillie (1908)
"The optic cup at the stage of 36 somites is composed of two layers, an inner, ... The choroid fissure is in the ventral face of the optic cup; it is very ..."

2. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"The outer layer of the optic cup becomes the pigmentary layer of the retina : from its inner ... The stalk of the optic cup occupies, in the embryonic eye, ..."

3. Text-book of the embryology of man and mammals by Oscar Hertwig, Edward Laurens Mark (1905)
"(c) The Development of the Secondary optic cup and the Coats of the Eye. ... The optic cup still possesses at this time a broad opening, in which the lens ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The mouth of the optic cup overlaps the equator of the lens as far as the future aperture of ... As development proceeds the optic cup increases in size, ..."

5. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer, George Dancer Thane (1890)
"place where the lens is becoming involuted, but also below, or ventral, to that place, so that a section exactly through the middle of the optic cup at ..."

6. The Early Embryology of the Chick by Bradley Merrill Patten (1920)
"The thickened internal layer of the optic cup will give rise to the sensory ... Mesenchyme cells can be seen aggregating about the outside of the optic cup. ..."

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