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auditory nerve



The eighth cranial nerve. The auditory nerve, also known as the vestibulocochlear nerve, transmits information from the inner ear to the hindbrain, which it enters between the pons and medulla. It serves two distinct functions: The auditory nerve derives embryologically as a sensory branch of the seventh cranial nerve.


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