Cochlear nerve

Cochlear nerve
Cochlear nerve
	Diagrammatic longitudinal section of the cochlea. (Cochlear nerve is in center, shown as striped.)
	Part of the cochlear division of the acoustic nerve, highly magnified.
Details
From	Vestibulocochlear nerve
Identifiers
Latin	nervus cochlearis
MeSH	D003056
TA98	A14.2.01.133
TA2	6318
FMA	53431
	Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The cochlear nerve (also auditory nerve or acoustic nerve) is one of two parts of the vestibulocochlear nerve, a cranial nerve present in amniotes, the other part being the vestibular nerve. The cochlear nerve carries auditory sensory information from the cochlea of the inner ear directly to the brain. The other portion of the vestibulocochlear nerve is the vestibular nerve, which carries spatial orientation information to the brain from the semicircular canals, also known as semicircular ducts.^[1]

^ Palmer, A R (1987). "Physiology of the cochlear nerve and cochlear nucleus". British Medical Bulletin. 43 (4): 838–855. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a072221. ISSN 1471-8391. PMID 3329928.

[1] Palmer, A R (1987). "Physiology of the cochlear nerve and cochlear nucleus". British Medical Bulletin. 43 (4): 838–855. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a072221. ISSN 1471-8391. PMID 3329928.

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