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... > Nervous System > Peripheral Nervous System > Peripheral Nerves > Cranial Nerves > Vestibulocochlear Nerve > Vestibular Nerve
Sense Organs > Vestibular System > Vestibular Nerve

Preferred term

Vestibular Nerve  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Ganglion, Scarpa's
  • Scarpa Ganglion
  • Scarpa's Ganglion
  • Scarpas Ganglion

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 vestibular part of the 8th cranial nerve (VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE). The vestibular nerve fibers arise from neurons of Scarpa's ganglion and project peripherally to vestibular hair cells and centrally to the VESTIBULAR NUCLEI of the BRAIN STEM. These fibers mediate the sense of balance and head position.

History note

  • SCARPA'S GANGLION was see under VESTIBULAR NERVE 1963-78

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014725

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