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Auditory Nerve

Definition: Auditory Nerve

Auditory Nerve

Noun

1. 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.
 


Specialty Definition: Auditory Nerve

DomainDefinition

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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Specialty Definition: Auditory nerve

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The auditory nerve is the nerve along which the sensory cells of the inner ear transmit information to the brain.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Auditory nerve."

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Synonyms: Auditory Nerve

Synonyms: acoustic nerve (n), eighth cranial nerve (n), nervus vestibulocochlearis (n), vestibulocochlear nerve (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Auditory Nerve

English words defined with "auditory nerve": Audiphone, auditory centerDentiphonenerve deafness, Nervous deafnessototoxicsensorineural hearing loss. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Auditory Nerve

DomainTitle

Books

  • Discharge Patterns of Single Fibers in the Cat's Auditory Nerve (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Auditory Nerve

SubjectTopicQuote

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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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Auditory 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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

auditory nerve

10

auditory nerve tumor

2
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Modern Translation: Auditory Nerve

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

   

Portuguese

  

nervo auditivo (acoustic, acoustic nerve, nervus acusticus). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

слуховой нерв (acoustic nerve). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

nervio acústico (acoustic, acoustic nerve, eight cranial nerve, nervus acusticus, vestibuloco- chlear nerve). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hörselnerv. (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Auditory Nerve

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

nervus cochlearis. (various references)

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Anagrams: Auditory Nerve

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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