How to Use auditory nerve in a Sentence

auditory nerve

noun

• The signals from these cells are passed to the auditory nerve and decoded in the brain.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2012
• At the time, many of House’s colleagues considered the idea of hacking into the auditory nerve absurd.
  — NBC News, 23 Apr. 2018
• Signals generated by the implant are sent by way of the auditory nerve to the brain, which recognizes the signals as sound.
  — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
• When noise hits our eardrums, tiny hairs convert it into an electric signal, which travels through the auditory nerve to the temporal lobe.
  — Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020
• The cilia discharge electrical impulses that are routed through the auditory nerve to the brain.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2018
• Once activated, the stimulation of the auditory nerve sends signals to the brain, which then interpret them as sound for that ear.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 8 May 2023
• Unlike hearing aids that simply amplify sounds, the implant sends digital sound signals to the auditory nerve, which then sends the signal to the brain.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2019
• Smoking can harm hearing in other ways, such as through alterations in auditory nerve signalling or by causing damage to the tiny hairs inside the ear.
  — Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
• The mechanical vibrations of the hair cells end up relaying signals to the auditory nerve, which sends that information to the brain.
  — Dallas News, 21 July 2021
• For the middle ear muscle reflex, the afferent limb is the auditory nerve; the efferent limb is the facial nerve for the stapedius muscle and the trigeminal nerve for the tensor tympani muscle.
  — Christopher Linstrom, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2011
• These vibrations make fluid inside your cochlea move, stimulating tiny hair cells that send nerve impulses to the brain via the auditory nerve.
  — Amber Brenza, SELF, 4 Feb. 2018
• This type of hearing loss, which affects many people, is currently untreatable; it isn’t helped by hearing aids or cochlear implants, both of which depend on the auditory nerve to send the final signals to the brain.
  — Ashley P. Taylor, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2012
• Doctors put cochlear implants in both ears, the devices delivering sound directly to the auditory nerve.
  — Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2020
• Then, a transmitter converts signals from the processor into electric impulses, which are sent to the auditory nerve.
  — Michelle Lou, CNN, 21 June 2019
• That is why tinnitus often doesn’t go away when people get their auditory nerve surgically cut.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2010
• These nerve endings translate the vibrations into electrical impulses, then send the electrical impulses along the auditory nerve to your brain.
  — Brian Robinson, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
• Rather than amplifying sound, as hearing aids do, cochlear implants send electrical signals directly to the auditory nerve, via an implant in the inner ear combined with an external sensor.
  — Sonja Sharpstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
• Nobody agrees on what caused his deafness, though one recent theory suggested that deterioration of his skull crushed his auditory nerves.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Beethoven-Haus Bonn An autopsy identified severe liver damage (evidence of cirrhosis) as the likely cause of death and significant dilation of the auditory nerve.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2023
• The one undeniably successful neural prosthesis is the artificial cochlea, which restores hearing by feeding signals from a microphone into the auditory nerve.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2021
• In people who have dysfunctional or dead hair cells, cochlear implants work by electrically stimulating auditory nerve cells directly.
  — Justin Chen, STAT, 11 July 2018
• Cochlear implants currently require digital signal processing, which involves receiving a sound, converting it from analog to digital, and processing the digital signal before stimulating the auditory nerve.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 May 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024