Turbit definition, one of a breed of domestic pigeons having a stout, roundish body, a short head and beak, and a ruffled breast and neck. See more. Dictionary.com
The anterior angle. Lesions that involve the anterior angle of the chiasm, the point at which the optic nerve passes into and forms the chiasm, may show a junctional scotoma (Traquair, 1949) since there is at this point separation of the crossing and uncrossed fibers.
Optic atrophy is the final common morphologic endpoint of any disease process that causes axon degeneration in the retinogeniculate pathway. Clinically, optic atrophy manifests as changes in the color and the structure of the optic disc (cupping) associated with variable degrees of visual dysfunction. The term atrophy is actually a misnomer, since, in its strict histologic definition, means involution of a structure due to prolonged disuse.