"Optic nerve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... live in an age of the optic nerve in literature. For how many centuries did literature get along without a sign of it? However, ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... crowded with the entangling machinery of sixteen engines, cuddies, ports, spars, levers, hatches, stancheons, floating trunks, bibulous boxes heavy with drink, and the awful, mysterious gloom of the water, which is not night or darkness, but the absence of any ray to touch the sensitive optic nerve. The sense of touch the only reliance, and ...
— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, No. 23, February, 1873, Vol. XI. • Various
... (one kind of color-blindness, hemophilia, one kind of night-blindness, atrophy of the optic nerve, and a ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson
... open page of a textbook, but not studying; not even reading; not even thinking. Nor was he lost in a reverie: his mind's eye was shut, as his physical eye might well have been, for the optic nerve, flaccid with ennui, conveyed nothing whatever of the printed page upon which the orb of vision was partially focused. Penrod was doing something very unusual and rare, something almost never accomplished except ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington
... of the arms, all muscular power was lost in an instant from my back and neck. I dimly saw Mr. Coxwell in the ring, and endeavoured to speak, but could not do so; when in an instant intense black darkness came over me, and the optic nerve lost power suddenly. I was still conscious, with as active a brain as whilst writing this. I thought I had been seized with asphyxia, and that I should experience no more, as death would come unless we speedily descended. ...
— Wonderful Balloon Ascents - or, the Conquest of the Skies • Fulgence Marion
... OPTIC NERVE (AMAUROSIS).—A paralysis of eyesight may occur very suddenly from rupture of a blood vessel in the brain, acute local congestion of the brain, the administration of excessive doses of belladonna or its alkaloid ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture |
