AUDITORY NERVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does auditory nerve mean? 

• AUDITORY NERVE (noun)
  The noun AUDITORY 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: AUDITORY NERVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUDITORY 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 ("auditory nerve" is a kind of...):

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

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

auditory system (the sensory system for hearing)

 Context examples 

The auditory nerve conveys impulses from the cochlea of the inner ear to the auditory nuclei of the brainstem.

(Murine Vestibulocochlear Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)

A blood vessel branching from the basilar artery that runs along the auditory nerve to supply the inner ear.

(Internal Auditory Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

One happens when your inner ear or auditory nerve is damaged.

(Hearing Disorders and Deafness, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

A locus on the floor of the lateral surface of the fourth ventricle where auditory nerves form the cochlea synapse in the brain stem.

(Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus, NCI Thesaurus)

Located at the brainstem, this sensory organ receives auditory signals from the cochlear auditory nerve fibers.

(Cochlear Nucleus, NCI Thesaurus)