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
Brain surgeons stopped the symptoms simply by cutting the acoustic nerve and disconnecting the diseased ear from the brain.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In adult life chronic catarrhal processes are more common causes of gradually increasing deafness, while in advanced age there is a tendency to acoustic nerve impairment.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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