optic tract

English Thesaurus

1. the cranial nerve that serves the retina (noun.body)

hypernym	:	cranial nerve,
definition	:	any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem (noun.body)

part meronym	:	visual system,
definition	:	the sensory system for vision (noun.body)

part meronym	:	betweenbrain, diencephalon, interbrain, thalmencephalon,
definition	:	the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon (noun.body)