auditory system
English Thesaurus
1. the sensory system for hearing (noun.body)
| hypernym | : | sensory system, |
| definition | : | the body's system of sense organs (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | auditory apparatus, |
| definition | : | all of the components of the organ of hearing including the outer and middle and inner ears (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | ear, |
| definition | : | the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | acoustic nerve, auditory nerve, eighth cranial nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis, vestibulocochlear nerve, |
| definition | : | a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea (noun.body) |
| domain category | : | audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing, |
| definition | : | the ability to hear; the auditory faculty (noun.cognition) |
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