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VESTIBULAR NERVE

Specialty Definition: VESTIBULAR NERVE

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Health

The vestibular part of the 8th cranial nerve (vestibulocochlear nerve). The vestibular nerve fibers arise from neurons of Scarpa's ganglion and project peripherally to vestibular hair cells and centrally to the vestibular nuclei of the brain stem. These fibers mediate the sense of balance and head position. (references)

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Crosswords: VESTIBULAR NERVE

Specialty definitions using "VESTIBULAR NERVE": Acoustic Maculae. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: VESTIBULAR NERVE

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Health

Vestibular neuronitis--an infection of the vestibular nerve, generally viral. (references)

Scientists now know that the tumors typically occur on the vestibular nerve, another branch of the eighth cranial nerve near the auditory nerve. (references)

In another more reliable operation, a vestibular neurectomy, the vestibular nerve which serves balance is severed so that it no longer sends distorted messages to the brain. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VESTIBULAR NERVE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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per Day

vestibular nerve

5
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Modern Translation: VESTIBULAR NERVE

Language Translations for "VESTIBULAR NERVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

nervus vestibularis. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

nervus vestibularis, nervus staticus. (various references)

   

French

  

nerf vestibulaire. (various references)

   

German

  

Pars vestibularis nervi octavi, N.vestibuli, N.staticus. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αιθουσαίο νεύρο. (various references)

   

Italian

  

nervo vestibolare, fascia vestibolare. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

estibularvay ervenay

   

Portuguese

  

nervo vestibular. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

nervio vesticular. (various references)

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Anagrams: VESTIBULAR NERVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-i-l-n-r-r-s-t-u-v-v"

-4 letters: interleaves, retrievable, returnables, reverential, subinterval, unbelievers, vulneraries.

-5 letters: interleave, intervales, investable, irrelevant, neutralise, reservable, retrievals, returnable, reversible, revertible, survivable, teaberries, unbeliever, varletries, veratrines, vestibular.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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