Vestibulocochlear nerve

Vestibulocochlear nerve
Vestibulocochlear nerve
	The course and connections of the facial nerve in the temporal bone
	Inferior view of the human brain, with the cranial nerves labelled.
Details
To	Cochlear nerve, vestibular nerve
Innervates	Hearing, balance
Identifiers
Latin	nervus vestibulocochlearis
MeSH	D000159
NeuroNames	553
TA98	A14.2.01.121
TA2	6307
FMA	50869
	Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The vestibulocochlear nerve or auditory vestibular nerve, also known as the eighth cranial nerve, cranial nerve VIII, or simply CN VIII, is a cranial nerve that 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.^[1]

Cranial nerves
CN 0 – Terminal CN I – Olfactory CN II – Optic CN III – Oculomotor CN IV – Trochlear CN V – Trigeminal CN VI – Abducens CN VII – Facial CN VIII – Vestibulocochlear CN IX – Glossopharyngeal CN X – Vagus CN XI – Accessory CN XII – Hypoglossal
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