Meaning | The sensory system for hearing. |
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Category | hearing, audition, auditory sense, sense of hearing, auditory modality | The ability to hear |
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Parts | acoustic nerve, auditory nerve, vestibulocochlear nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis, eighth cranial nerve | A composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea |
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auditory apparatus | All of the components of the organ of hearing including the outer and middle and inner ears |
ear | The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium |
Broader | sensory system | The body's system of sense organs |
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Spanish | sistema auditivo |
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Catalan | sistema auditiu |
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