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MAMMALIAN PHENOTYPE - ANNOTATIONS

The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.

Term:enlarged optic nerve
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Accession:MP:0008529 term browser browse the term
Definition:increased size of the second cranial nerve which is responsible for conveying visual information from the retina to the brain; it extends from the retina to the optic chiasma where part of its fibers become the optic tract and cross to the opposite side and pass to the geniculate bodies
Synonyms:exact_synonym: increased optic nerve size



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  mammalian phenotype 5432
    vision/eye phenotype 100
      abnormal eye morphology 88
        abnormal posterior eye segment morphology 47
          abnormal optic nerve morphology 4
            enlarged optic nerve 0
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  mammalian phenotype 5432
    nervous system phenotype 383
      abnormal nervous system morphology 220
        abnormal somatic nervous system morphology 36
          abnormal cranial nerve morphology 7
            abnormal optic nerve morphology 4
              enlarged optic nerve 0
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