eighth cranial nerve

Questions about eighth cranial nerve

What does eighth cranial nerve mean?

eighth cranial nerve means "a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea".

What is another word for eighth cranial nerve?

Close synonyms include acoustic nerve, auditory nerve, vestibulocochlear nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is eighth cranial nerve a common word?

eighth cranial nerve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for eighth cranial nerve come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.