cochlear nerve

noun

Medical Definition of cochlear nerve

: 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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