VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vestibulocochlear nerve mean? 

• VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE (noun)
  The noun VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE has 1 sense:

1. a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea

  Familiarity information: VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

acoustic nerve; auditory nerve; eighth cranial nerve; nervus vestibulocochlearis; vestibulocochlear nerve

Hypernyms ("vestibulocochlear nerve" is a kind of...):

cranial nerve (any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem)

Holonyms ("vestibulocochlear nerve" is a part of...):

auditory system (the sensory system for hearing)

 Context examples 

It may be intermixed with the vestibulocochlear nerve and may adhere to adjacent structures.

(Inner Ear Lipoma, NCI Thesaurus)