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auditory system

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Noun1.auditory system - the sensory system for hearingauditory system - the sensory system for hearing      
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
sensory system - the body's system of sense organs
audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing, hearing - the ability to hear; the auditory faculty; "his hearing was impaired"


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It really allows us to look at the auditory systems in the brain in a very pure way, without distortion from the ear," he added.
The vestibular system of the ear is involved with balance while the auditory system determines how well you can hear.
Owing to the immediacy of mobile phones to our head and the distance between the phone's antenna and our inner ear being just a small number of centimeters apart, our auditory systems are exposed to harmful electromagnetic radiations.
 
 
 
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