ACOUSTIC NERVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acoustic nerve mean? 

• ACOUSTIC NERVE (noun)
  The noun ACOUSTIC NERVE has 1 sense:

1. a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea

  Familiarity information: ACOUSTIC NERVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACOUSTIC NERVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

acoustic nerve; auditory nerve; eighth cranial nerve; nervus vestibulocochlearis; vestibulocochlear nerve

Hypernyms ("acoustic nerve" is a kind of...):

cranial nerve (any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem)

Holonyms ("acoustic nerve" is a part of...):

auditory system (the sensory system for hearing)

 Context examples 

A type of benign brain tumor that begins in the Schwann cells, which produce the myelin that protects the acoustic nerve - the nerve of hearing.

(Acoustic Schwannoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The eighth cranial nerve composed of the acoustic nerve and the vestibular nerve.

(Murine Vestibulocochlear Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)