auditory system
Noun
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The sensory system for hearing (synset 105308006)
referred to in: audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing - the ability to hear; the auditory facultyis a type of: sensory system - the body's system of sense organshas:
- auditory apparatus - all of the components of the organ of hearing including the outer and middle and inner ears
- ear - the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- acoustic nerve, auditory nerve, eighth cranial nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis, vestibulocochlear nerve - a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea
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