Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun eighth_cranial_nerve

1 sense of eighth cranial nerve

Sense 1
acoustic nerve, auditory nerve, vestibulocochlear nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis, eighth cranial nerve -- (a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea)
       => cranial nerve -- (any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem)