Search Result for "acoustic_nerve":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea;
[syn: acoustic nerve, auditory nerve, vestibulocochlear nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis, eighth cranial nerve]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

acoustic nerve n 1: a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea [syn: acoustic nerve, auditory nerve, vestibulocochlear nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis, eighth cranial nerve]