AUDITORY SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does auditory system mean? 

• AUDITORY SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun AUDITORY SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. the sensory system for hearing

  Familiarity information: AUDITORY SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUDITORY SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sensory system for hearing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("auditory system" is a kind of...):

sensory system (the body's system of sense organs)

Meronyms (parts of "auditory system"):

auditory apparatus (all of the components of the organ of hearing including the outer and middle and inner ears)

ear (the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium)

acoustic nerve; auditory nerve; eighth cranial nerve; nervus vestibulocochlearis; vestibulocochlear nerve (a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea)

Domain category:

audition; auditory modality; auditory sense; hearing; sense of hearing (the ability to hear; the auditory faculty)

 Context examples 

These animals are highly prized for their fur and are used in biomedical research for auditory system research as well as bacterial infections caused by Listeria, Yersinia and Pseudomonas.

(Chinchilla, NCI Thesaurus)

Kelley’s team now plans to use mouse models to examine the role of Bmp7 in patterning the mammalian auditory system.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)

In profoundly deaf children, the auditory system undergoes a functional reorganisation, repurposing itself to respond more to visual stimuli, for example.

(Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound, University of Cambridge)

Researchers gained insights into how cells in the auditory system become organized to hear different frequencies.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)

The structure and function of the auditory system, which processes sounds in the brain, develops throughout childhood in response to exposure to sounds.

(Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound, University of Cambridge)