We noted one new acquired pit of the optic nerve and it was located at the 12 o'clock meridian. We found increased beta parapapillary atrophy in 5 eyes (5%). Sensitivity, Specificity, and ...

Heat and visual data are sent, via the optic nerve, to the pit-viper's brain, where the two types of data are transposed into a single image.

The optic nerve has been known to contain both sensory and motor fibres since the work of Bethe 1, who suggested a purely motor function for the oculomotor nerve.