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eighth cranial nerve

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Noun

a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea

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Synonyms:
acoustic nerve auditory nerve vestibulocochlear nerve nervus vestibulocochlearis

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