eighth cranial nerve

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eighth cranial nerve - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  eighth cranial nerve
      n 1: a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the
           vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea [syn:
           acoustic nerve, auditory nerve, vestibulocochlear nerve
           , nervus vestibulocochlearis, eighth cranial nerve
           ]