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What is the definition or description of: blind spot?
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Optic nerve location: The physiologic blind spot is located about 15 degrees temporal to the midline in each eye. The reason for the blind spot is that there are no photoreceptors on the optic nerve. Your brain will fill that spot in with information from the other eye or with what it thinks is there. There are many websites that can help you explore this phenomenon if you google it.
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