Term: Retina, outer plexiform layer

Definition: Braekevelt and Hollenberg 1970; Morest 1970; Perry 1981; Ehinger and Dowling 1987. Developmentally the retina is an evagination of the hypothalamus, between the prospective preoptic and anterior hypothalamic levels (see Alvarez-Bolado and Swanson 1996).

Nomenclature: Swanson-2004