AUDITORY CENTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does auditory center mean? 

• AUDITORY CENTER (noun)
  The noun AUDITORY CENTER has 1 sense:

1. the part of the brain (in a fold of the cerebral cortex of the temporal lobe on both sides of the brain) that receives impulses from the ear by way of the auditory nerve

  Familiarity information: AUDITORY CENTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUDITORY CENTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of the brain (in a fold of the cerebral cortex of the temporal lobe on both sides of the brain) that receives impulses from the ear by way of the auditory nerve

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("auditory center" is a kind of...):

center; centre; nerve center; nerve centre (a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process)