Nervous system & sense organs
Vestibulocochlear nerve (VIII)
Nervus vestibulocochlearis (VIII)
- System
- Nervous system & sense organs
- Regions
- Head
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Cranial nerves
DescriptionUnreviewed
The vestibulocochlear nerve (auditory vestibular nerve), known as the eighth cranial nerve, transmits sound and equilibrium (balance) information from the inner ear to the brain.
Through olivocochlear fibers, it also transmits motor and modulatory information from the superior olivary complex in the brainstem to the cochlea.
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Parts
Names
- Latin
- Nervus vestibulocochlearis (VIII)
- English
- Vestibulocochlear nerve (VIII)
- French
- Nerf vestibulocochléaire (VIII)
- Spanish
- Nervio vestibulococlear (VIII)
- Portuguese
- Nervo vestibulococlear (VIII)