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Definition of Acoustic nerve

1. Noun. A composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea.

Medical Definition of Acoustic nerve

1. The 8th cranial nerve. The acoustic (or vestibulocochlear) nerve has a cochlear part which is concerned with hearing and a vestibular part which mediates the sense of balance and head position. The fibres of the cochlear nerve originate from neurons of the spiral ganglion and project to the cochlear nuclei. The fibres of the vestibular nerve arise from neurons of scarpa's ganglion and project to the vestibular nuclei. (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Acoustic nerve

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1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The acoustic nerve, or nerve of hearing, is distributed exclusively to the internal ear. It consists of two sets of fibres, which, although differing in ..."

2. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"Effect of Section of the Ampullary or the acoustic nerve.- Many of the older and newer observers have cut one or both of the acoustic nerves or destroyed ..."

3. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"... part of the facial nerve and should examine the acoustic nerve. Separate the temporal bone from the other cranial bones which still adhere to it, ..."

4. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1905)
"... would occur normally if the animal's body were rotated in the plane of the canal stimulated. Effect of Section of the Ampullary or the acoustic nerve. ..."

5. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Ear: Including a Sketch of Aural by Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa (1891)
"Atrophy uf the acoustic nerve.—Cases.—The Tuning-Fork iu Diagnosis.—Deafness to C«.-r- tain Tones.—Double Hearing.—Electricity.—Syphilitic Disease of the ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"... along the acoustic nerve; on the contrary, the hemorrhagic and purulent exudation ... and in the case of the acoustic nerve in diphtheria (Moos). ..."

7. Handbook of Electro-therapeutics by Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1883)
"C. Electro-diagnosis of the Nerves of Special Sense. 1. Optic Nerve and Retina—2. acoustic nerve and Auditory Apparatus—a. ..."

8. The Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Ear by Oren Day Pomeroy (1883)
"SYPHILITIC INFLAMMATION OF THE MIDDLE EAR, THE LABYRINTH AND acoustic nerve. I treat these subjects under one heading for the reason that in practice most ..."

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