Acoustic Nerve (Noun)
Meaning
A composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- Diseases of the inner ear affecting the vestibulocochlear, also known as the acoustic nerve, can result in various symptoms such as ringing of the ear or ear buzzing or possibly profound vertigo from seemingly everyday exertion.
- Experts currently conclude that a head or neck trauma can disrupt and/or damage the transmission of signals to the brain via the acoustic nerve that can significantly impair balance after head injury or post concussive exertion and specifically where such exertions are relatively common benign activities.
- In multiple cases acoustic nerves were transected and all eight vestibular and the four hearing nerves regained perfect functionality after employing a growth serum also called neurotrophic agent to graft an area spanning over eleven millimeters and the regeneration was clinically confirmed as occurring well before two months were up.
- Some studies have shown that there can be evidence of microscopic nerve damage on both her auditory nerves and a her acoustic nerves along with both her sensory nerves where excessive loud music may have existed more than once.
- After a case history and physical examination the otologist said that benign positional vertigo happens when small crystals become dislodged from the part of the acoustic nerve in the inner ear that control balance and then somehow start and continue floating around and further colliding on and around that point of same and touching small hair cells in that liquid filled tubular organ that the otologist had said had started sending false signals to her brain that her world was spinning when it was not..