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

• acoustic nerve
• vestibulocochlear nerve
• nervus vestibulocochlearis
• eighth cranial nerve

News & Articles

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• Deaf boy, 3, hears dad's voice for the first time
  A 3-year-old boy is hearing the world for the first time, thanks to an auditory brain stem implant. "He likes sound," young Grayson's mom Nicole Clamp, said to CBS affiliate WBTV in Charlotte, N.C. "He enjoys the stimulus, the input. He's curious, and he definitely enjoys it." Grayson Clamp was born without his cochlear nerves, or the auditory nerve that carries the sound signal from the cochlea ...
  June 20, 2013 - WHP CBS 21 Harrisburg