NOUN
- (embryology) a two-walled cuplike depression that develops into the pigmented and sensory layers of the retina
How To Use optic cup In A Sentence
- Objective To study the location of embryonic optic cup stem cells during tail bud stage.
- Finally, the retina and retinal pigment epithelium differentiate from the optic cup, and the optic nerve develops from the optic stalk.
- In the Triton, as with most amphibia, the lens of the eye arises as a sequel to the optic cup and its size depends strictly on it. Hans Spemann - Nobel Lecture
