Auditory Nerve

nerve responsible for sending sound messages to the brain

nerves connecting the inner ear to the brain, nerves which transmit impulses concerned with hearing and balance

The cochlear nerve (also auditory nerve) is part of the vestibulocochlear nerve, (or 8th cranial nerve) that is found in higher vertebrates. It is a sensory nerve, i.e., one that conducts information about the environment (in this case, acoustic energy that impinges on the external ear) to the brain. The other portion of the 8th nerve is the vestibular nerve. The cochlear nerve arises from within the cochlea and extends to the brainstem, where its fibers make contact with the cochlear nucleus, the next stage of neural processing in the auditory system.
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Noun
1. a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea
(synonym) acoustic nerve, vestibulocochlear nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis, eighth cranial nerve
(hypernym) cranial nerve
(part-holonym) auditory system

vestibulocochlear nerve or acoustic nerve or auditory nerve

noun
eighth cranial nerve which governs hearing and balance

noun
eighth cranial nerve which governs hearing and balance

adjective
referring to hearing
external auditory canal or external auditory meatus = tube in the skull leading from the outer ear to the eardrum
internal auditory meatus = channel which takes the auditory nerve through the temporal bone
auditory nerve = the vestibulocochlear nerve, the eighth cranial nerve which governs hearing and balance

NERVO ACUSTICO. NERVO VESTIBOLOCOCLEARE