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Auditory nerve

noun

A composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea. Synonyms: acoustic nerve, eighth cranial nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis, vestibulocochlear nerve.

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... tense by the contraction of this muscle, and the sounds become, by this means, more audible. The vibrations made on the drum are transmitted by the tympanum—an irregular bony cavity—to the internal ear, which is filled with a watery fluid. In this fluid the filaments of the auditory nerve terminate, which receive and transmit the sound ...

— Popular Education - For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes • Ira Mayhew

... reflexes. The original "shake-organ" developed into the organs of hearing and of equilibrium (that is, the cochlea and the semicircular canals respectively), but these were still side by side in the inner ear, and the close connection with the motor centres was not lost. Anatomically, the auditory nerve not only goes to those parts of the brain whence the motor innervation emanates, and to the reflex centres in the cerebellum, but passes close by the vagus or pneumogastric nerve, which rules the ...

— The Psychology of Beauty • Ethel D. Puffer

Words linked to "Auditory nerve" : auditory system, acoustic nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis, eighth cranial nerve, cranial nerve