auditory nerves
Sound signal carriers
Auditory nerves are the pair of cranial nerves that carry sound signals from the inner ear to the brain.
Each auditory nerve transmits electrical impulses generated when sound waves vibrate the cochlea's hair cells.
Damage to these nerves causes hearing loss that hearing aids cannot correct, since the pathway itself is compromised: The tumor was pressing on her auditory nerve.
- earAuditory organ
- inner earBalance and hearing center
- cochleaSpiral hearing organ
- neuronsSignal-transmitting brain cells
- acousticRelating to sound
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