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AUDITORY SYSTEM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The sensory system for hearing
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("auditory system" is a kind of...):
sensory system (the body's system of sense organs)
Meronyms (parts of "auditory system"):
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)
Domain category:
audition; auditory modality; auditory sense; hearing; sense of hearing (the ability to hear; the auditory faculty)
