| Cochlear nerve | |
|---|---|
 Diagrammatic longitudinal section of the cochlea. (Cochlear nerve is in center, shown as striped.) | |
 Part of the cochlear division of the acoustic nerve, highly magnified. | |
| Details | |
| From | Vestibulocochlear nerve |
| Identifiers | |
| Latin | nervus cochlearis |
| MeSH | D003056 |
| TA98 | A14.2.01.133 |
| TA2 | 6318 |
| FMA | 53431 |
| Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy | |
The cochlear nerve (also auditory nerve or acoustic nerve) is one of two parts of the vestibulocochlear nerve, a cranial nerve present in amniotes, the other part being the vestibular nerve. The cochlear nerve carries auditory sensory information from the cochlea of the inner ear directly to the brain. The other portion of the vestibulocochlear nerve is the vestibular nerve, which carries spatial orientation information to the brain from the semicircular canals, also known as semicircular ducts.[1]
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