| NOUN | body | auditory system | the sensory system for hearing |
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| Meaning | The sensory system for hearing. | |
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| Category | hearing, audition, auditory sense, sense of hearing, auditory modality | The ability to hear |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Spanish | sistema auditivo | |
| Catalan | sistema auditiu | |
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