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optic vesicle (medicine)


optic vesicle -->
ophthalmic vesicle


In the embryo, one of the paired evaginations from the ventrolateral walls of the forebrain from which the sensory and pigment layers of the retina develop.

Synonym: vesicula ophthalmica, ocular vesicle, optic vesicle.