vestibulocochlear nerve

What does vestibulocochlear nerve mean?

vestibulocochlear 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 vestibulocochlear nerve?

Close synonyms include acoustic nerve, auditory nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis, eighth cranial nerve. 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 vestibulocochlear nerve a common word?

vestibulocochlear 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 vestibulocochlear nerve come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.