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Sunday, October 30, 2005. Optic Nerve Answers. The optic nerve is the bundle of axons that extend from the cell bodies of ganglion cells in the retina to synapse on the lateral geniculate body in the brain. The optic nerve as a structure begins at the optic disk. A smaller, disc-shaped depression, called the cup, lies slightly temporal to the center of the optic disc.