auditory nerve
noun
: either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves connecting the inner ear with the brain and transmitting impulses concerned with hearing and balance see ear illustration
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Problems with these three areas of your ear or the auditory nerve can cause deafness.1
Most causes of deafness are permanent.
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Heidi Cope, Health, 20 Apr. 2025
The hope is that by biologically repairing cell function, the doctors wrote, gene therapy could potentially restore the full spectrum of hearing, unlike cochlear implants, which transform sounds into electrical signals to directly stimulate the auditory nerve.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
The second type is sensorineural hearing loss, which occurs when there is damage to the inner ear (also known as the cochlea) or the auditory nerve.
—Miriam A Knoll, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
This general idea had been taken up earlier by Claus-Peter Richter from Northwestern University, who proposed directly stimulating the auditory nerve with high-energy infrared light, though that concept wasn’t confirmed by other laboratories.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 July 2022
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Heidi Cope, Health, 20 Apr. 2025
The hope is that by biologically repairing cell function, the doctors wrote, gene therapy could potentially restore the full spectrum of hearing, unlike cochlear implants, which transform sounds into electrical signals to directly stimulate the auditory nerve.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
The second type is sensorineural hearing loss, which occurs when there is damage to the inner ear (also known as the cochlea) or the auditory nerve.
—Miriam A Knoll, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
This general idea had been taken up earlier by Claus-Peter Richter from Northwestern University, who proposed directly stimulating the auditory nerve with high-energy infrared light, though that concept wasn’t confirmed by other laboratories.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 July 2022
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“Auditory nerve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/auditory%20nerve. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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