acoustic nerve

Questions about acoustic nerve

What is another word for acoustic nerve?

It depends which acoustic nerve you mean. In the sense “a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea”, the synonyms are auditory nerve, vestibulocochlear nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis, eighth cranial nerve. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of acoustic nerve?

WordNet records no antonym for acoustic nerve. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for acoustic nerve come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of acoustic nerve

• Full entry for acoustic nerveAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for acoustic nerveWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.