A composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea.
1It usually consists of a closed vesicle, filled with fluid, and containing otoliths, with the acoustic nerve expanding on its wall.
2On the thin wall of this delicate labyrinth the acoustic nerve, which comes from the after-brain, spreads out in most elaborate fashion.
3The acoustic nerve is formed from ectodermic cells of the hind brain, and develops from the nervous structure that appears at its dorsal limit.
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Translations for acoustic nerve