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auditory nerve

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auditory nerve
n.
See acoustic nerve.
auditory nerve
Either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves that carries sensory impulses from the ear to the brain. The auditory nerve transmits information related to sound and balance.
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Noun1.auditory nerveauditory nerve - a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea
acoustic nerve, eighth cranial nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis, vestibulocochlear nerve
auditory system - the sensory system for hearing
cranial nerve - any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem


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