OPTIC CUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does optic cup mean? 

• OPTIC CUP (noun)
  The noun OPTIC CUP has 1 sense:

1. (embryology) a two-walled cuplike depression that develops into the pigmented and sensory layers of the retina

  Familiarity information: OPTIC CUP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPTIC CUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(embryology) a two-walled cuplike depression that develops into the pigmented and sensory layers of the retina

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

eyecup; optic cup

Hypernyms ("optic cup" is a kind of...):

caliculus; calycle; calyculus (a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp))

Domain category:

embryology (the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms)

 Context examples 

Human Eye Development involves bilateral outpouchings of optic vesicles, from the neural tube, that each form optic cups.

(Eye Development, NCI Thesaurus)