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The acoustic nerve, also known as the vestibulocochlear nerve, is located in the inner ear. It is responsible for transmitting sound and balance information from the ear to the brain.

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What passes through the internal acoustic meatus?

The facial nerve and vestibulocochlear nerve pass through the internal acoustic meatus, which is a small bony canal located in the skull.


What is acoustic neuroma?

Acoustic neuroma is a non-cancerous growth (a tumour) in the brain. It grows on the acoustic nerve in the brain, the nerve that controls hearing and balance. The common symptoms are hearing loss and vertigo.


Where is the auditory nerve?

Auditory or vestibulocochlear nerve goes to your ear. It exits the skull through internal acoustic meatus along with the facial nerve.


Acoustic neuroma most commonly arise from which part of vestibular nerve superior or inferior?

Inf vestibular nerve


What is the medical term meaning tumor of the auditory nerve affecting hearing?

Acoustic neuroma is a tumor of the auditory nerve.


Where does an Acoustic neuroma grow?

The nerve leading from the inner ear to the brain


What nerve is also known as the acoustic or auditory nerve?

The 8th Cranial nerve has a lot of common names, but it always begins in the inner ear and ends in the brain.Here are names for the same nerve from different texts:Acoustic nerveAuditory nerveCochlear nerveAuditory vestibular nerveVestibulocochlear nerve is the preferred name8th Cranial Nerve


What symptoms can be caused as the acoustic neuroma grows?

can cause vertigo and balance difficulties. If the acoustic nerve grows large enough to press against the cochlear nerve, then hearing loss and a ringing (tinnitus) in the affected ear will usually occur


Point of which the facial nerve starts to branch?

The facial nerve starts to branch at the geniculate ganglion, which is located just after the nerve exits the internal acoustic meatus of the temporal bone in the skull. From the geniculate ganglion, the facial nerve gives rise to branches that innervate different muscles of the face as well as the lacrimal and salivary glands.


Where is a nerve located in a cell?

In a nerve cell, the nucleus is located in the cell body.


What causes nausea vomiting vertigo nystagmus tinnitus and nerve related hearing loss in the right ear?

an acoustic neuroma (tumor of the cranial nerve 8).


Nerve that passes through the internal acoustic meatus?

The facial nerve (cranial nerve VII) passes through the internal acoustic meatus. It carries motor fibers to the muscles of facial expression and also carries taste sensations from the anterior two-thirds of the tongue.