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Definition: Auditory Nerve |
Auditory NerveNoun1. A composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The eight cranial nerve; also called vestibulocochlear nerve or acoustic nerve. (references) |
Medicine | Vestibulocochlear nerve(8th cranial), which has two roots, vestibular and cochlear. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: Auditory NerveSynonyms: acoustic nerve (n), eighth cranial nerve (n), nervus vestibulocochlearis (n), vestibulocochlear nerve (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Auditory Nerve |
| English words defined with "auditory nerve": Audiphone, auditory center ♦ Dentiphone ♦ nerve deafness, Nervous deafness ♦ ototoxic ♦ sensorineural hearing loss. (references) |
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Health | Sensorineural hearing loss is caused by disorders of the inner ear or auditory nerve. (references) | |
The auditory nerve carries the message to the brain, where it is interpreted as sound. (references) | ||
Inside the cochlea are tiny hair cells that pick up sound vibrations from the fluid and cause nerve impulses in the auditory nerve. (references) | ||
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| Expression | Frequency per Day |
auditory nerve | 10 |
auditory nerve tumor | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "auditory nerve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nervus acusticus (acoustic nerve, cochlear nerve, eight cranial nerve), hoerenerven (acoustic nerve, eight cranial nerve), 8. kranienerve (acoustic nerve, eight cranial nerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gehoorzenuw (acoustic nerve, eight cranial nerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kuulohermo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | nerf cochléo-vestibulaire, nerf auditif, nerf acoustique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nervus cochlearis (acoustic nerve, eight cranial nerve), Hoernerv (acoustic nerve, eight cranial nerve), Hirnnerv (acoustic nerve, eight cranial nerve), hörnerv, Gehoernerv (acoustic nerve, eight cranial nerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hallóideg (acoustic nerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nervo uditivo (acoustic nerve, eight cranial nerve), nervo cocleare (acoustic nerve, cochlear, cochlear nerve, eight cranial nerve), nervo acustico (acoustic nerve, eight cranial nerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 聴覚神経 , 聴神経 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ちょうし"けい, ちょうかくし"けい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | auditoryay ervenay nervo auditivo (acoustic, acoustic nerve, nervus acusticus). (various references) слуховой нерв (acoustic nerve). (various references) nervio acústico (acoustic, acoustic nerve, eight cranial nerve, nervus acusticus, vestibuloco- chlear nerve). (various references) hörselnerv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nervus cochlearis. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-o-r-r-t-u-v-y" | |
-2 letters: overtrained. | |
-3 letters: adventurer, overturned, veterinary. | |
-4 letters: adventure, arytenoid, deviatory, endeavour, irredenta, outdriven, outearned, overrated, overtired, overtrade, overtrain, overtured, renatured, renovated, retrained, tourneyed, underrate, unreadier, venerator, veratrine. | |
-5 letters: adroiter, aerodyne, anterior, arointed, aroynted, auditory, autodyne, denature, denotive, derivate, detainer, deuteron, deviator, devourer, devouter, diverter, donative, duration, durative, duvetine, duvetyne, endeavor, indevout, indurate, interred, intruder, inverted. | |
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