Cranial nerve that transmits sound and equilibrium (balance) information from the inner ear to the brain. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibulocochlear_nerve https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0471209627 ]
Synonyms: acoustic nerve (Crosby) vestibulocochlear VIII nerve nervus vestibulocochlearis [viii] eighth cranial nerve VIIIth cranial nerve CN-VIII cranial nerve VIII stato-acoustic nerve vestibulocochlear nerve [VIII] acoustic nerve VIII nerve cochlear-vestibular nerve vestibulocochlear nerve tree acoustic VIII nerve cochleovestibular nerve
Term information
- BAMS:VIIIn
- MESH:D000159
- MA:0001109
- BAMS:nVIII
- ZFA:0000247
- OpenCyc:Mx4rvVjMFZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
- null:http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/180945001
- UMLS:C1278835 (BIRNLEX:890)
- GAID:839
- BIRNLEX:890
- FMA:50869
- null:http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/centraldirectory.aspx?ID=553 (BIRNLEX:890)
- null:http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/centraldirectory.aspx?ID=553
- MBA:933
- NCIT:C12996
- BTO:0003490
- EHDAA2:0002194
- BAMS:8n
- null:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0001162
- null:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibulocochlear_nerve
- HBA:9331
- TAO:0000247
- null:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C1278835
- AAO:0010473
- EMAPA:17801
- XAO:0003095
- UMLS:C0001162 (ncithesaurus:Vestibulocochlear_Nerve)
- UMLS:C0001162 (BIRNLEX:890)
- VHOG:0000695
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
Nerve primarily composed of special somatic afferent fibers innervating the inner ear, and is involved in balance, position, and hearing.[AAO]
nervus octavus
statoacoustic nerve
octaval nerve
nervus statoacusticus
nervus vestibulocochlearis
We conclude this section by listing some of the many synapomorphies of craniates, including (...) (5) cranial nerves (...) (reference 1); Phylogenetically, the cranial nerves are thought to have evolved from dorsal and ventral nerves of a few anterior spinal nerves that became incorporated into the braincase. Dorsal and ventral nerves fuse in the trunk but not in the head, and they produce two series: dorsal cranial nerves (V, VII, IX, and X) and ventral cranial nerves (III, IV, VI, and XIII) (reference 2).[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- cranial nerve and innervates some cochlea and extends_fibers_into some cochlear nucleus
- cranial nerve
- develops_from some otic placode
- innervates some cochlea
- part of some vestibulo-auditory system
- extends_fibers_into some cochlear nucleus