cochlear nerve n a branch of the auditory nerve that arises in the spiral ganglion of the cochlea and conducts sensory stimuli from the organ of hearing to the brain called also cochlear, cochlear branch, cochlear division
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the nerve connecting the cochlea to the brain and therefore responsible for the nerve impulses relating to hearing. It forms part of the vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII).
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nervus cochlearis.Medical dictionary. 2011.