How to Use auditory nerve in a Sentence

auditory nerve

noun
  • The hair cells send their signals through the auditory nerve to the brain.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The signals from these cells are passed to the auditory nerve and decoded in the brain.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2012
  • As sound waves stimulate the auditory nerve to send information to the brain, the nerve emits an electric signal.
    — Byhannah Richter, science.org, 30 July 2024
  • 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
  • That is why tinnitus often doesn’t go away when people get their auditory nerve surgically cut.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2010
  • 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
  • At the time, many of House’s colleagues considered the idea of hacking into the auditory nerve absurd.
    — NBC News, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The cilia discharge electrical impulses that are routed through the auditory nerve to the brain.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2018
  • Electrical impulses are sent to the auditory nerve, using electrodes that are implanted in the cochlea, a part of the inner ear.
    — Kelly Burch Published, Verywell Health, 11 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • This chemical initiates an electrical signal in the auditory nerve that's sent to the part of the brain that interprets sound.
    — WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Doctors put cochlear implants in both ears, the devices delivering sound directly to the auditory nerve.
    — Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Then, a transmitter converts signals from the processor into electric impulses, which are sent to the auditory nerve.
    — Michelle Lou, CNN, 21 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The external processor picks up sound, which is changed to electrical impulses that are sent to the internal implant to stimulate the auditory nerve, enabling the user to hear.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The device, which uses electrodes to stimulate auditory nerves in the inner ear, allows patients to hear sounds, especially those needed to understand speech.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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 are small electronic hearing devices that work by electrically stimulating the auditory nerve in people with severe to profound hearing loss.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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