Acoustic nerve
.
either one of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct impulses from the organs of hearing and from the semicircular canals to the brain.
Historical Examples
There would be no sound without the acoustic nerve and the brain.
Urania Camille Flammarion
acoustic nerve: connects the auditory pits or other organs of hearing with special ganglia.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
noun
the former name for vestibulocochlear nerve
acoustic nerve n.
See vestibulocochlear nerve.
auditory nerve n.
See cochlear nerve.
auditory nerve
Either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves that carries sensory impulses from the ear to the brain. The auditory nerve transmits information related to sound and balance.
The nerve that connects the inner ear with the brain. One of its two branches carries the sensation of sound to the brain; the other is involved in maintaining balance.
Read Also:
- Acoustic neurilemoma
acoustic neurilemoma acoustic neurilemoma n. A benign neoplasm of the intracranial segment of the eighth cranial nerve. Also called acoustic neuroma.
- Acoustic neuroma
noun a benign brain tumour of the vestibulocochlear nerve, one of the nerves connecting the ear to the brain, which can cause hearing and balance problems
- Acoustic ohm
the unit of acoustic impedance, equal to the impedance of a medium in which a sound pressure of one dyne per square centimeter produces a velocity of one centimeter per second.
- Acoustic phonetics
the branch of science dealing with the sounds of speech in terms of their frequency, duration, intensity, etc., especially as analyzed by means of instruments like the sound spectrograph and the oscillograph. Compare . a composite branch of physics and linguistics that treats sound proper as it relates to speech. the branch of phonetics dealing […]
- Acoustic radiation
acoustic radiation acoustic radiation n. The radiation of fibers that pass from the medial geniculate body to the transverse temporal gyri of the cerebral cortex and form part of the sublentiform part of the internal capsule.