optic vesicle


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optic vesicle

n.
Either of the paired evaginations of the embryonic forebrain from which the optic nerve and retina develop.
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(1) The lens arises from the surface ectoderm and formation starts with the contact of optic vesicle at about 3 weeks of gestation.
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For reasons that are not entirely clear the congenital cystic eye develops as a result of partial or complete arrest in the invagination of the primary optic vesicle between the 2 mm and 7 mm stages of fetal development.
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