acoustic nerve
Britishnoun
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Separately, researchers are also examining whether cell phone use increases the risk of tumors in the ear's acoustic nerve and the parotid gland, where saliva is produced.
From Salon ● May 17, 2010
Sensations of sound and of balance reach the brain along separate but intimately packed fibres of the acoustic nerve, a soft strand the diameter of a slate pencil.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brain surgeons, like exalted telephone repairmen selecting particular lines in a many-stranded cable, tried with little success—to pick out the balancing fibres of the acoustic nerve.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brain surgeons stopped the symptoms simply by cutting the acoustic nerve and disconnecting the diseased ear from the brain.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the thin wall of this delicate labyrinth the acoustic nerve, which comes from the after-brain, spreads out in most elaborate fashion.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
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