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Preferred term

Cochlear Nerve  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Acoustic Nerve
  • Acoustic Nerves
  • Auditory Nerve
  • Auditory Nerves
  • Nerve, Acoustic
  • Nerve, Auditory
  • Nerves, Acoustic
  • Nerves, Auditory

Note

  • dis: coord IM with VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES (IM); neopl: coord IM with VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES (IM) + CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS (IM) + histol type of neopl (IM)

Scope note

  • The cochlear part of the 8th cranial nerve (VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE). The cochlear nerve fibers originate from neurons of the SPIRAL GANGLION and project peripherally to cochlear hair cells and centrally to the cochlear nuclei (COCHLEAR NUCLEUS) of the BRAIN STEM. They mediate the sense of hearing.

History note

  • 1963; for AUDITORY NERVE use VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE 1979-1999; for ACOUSTIC NERVE use VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE 1963-1999

In other languages

  • kuulohermo

    Finnish

  • cochlearis
  • kokleaarihermo
  • n. cochlearis
  • nervus cochlearis
  • pars cochlearis nervi vestibulocochlearis
  • Hörselnerv

    Swedish

  • Koklearnerv
  • Nervus cochlearis

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003056

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