Auditory pathway

Introduction: Auditory pathway

Description of Auditory pathway

Auditory pathway: neural paths and connections within the central nervous system, beginning at the hair cells of the organ of Corti, continuing along the eighth cranial nerve, and terminating at the auditory cortex.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Auditory pathway: cochlear nuclei give rise to two bundles, the trapezoid body and dorsal acoustic stria, which rejoin as the lateral lemniscus and continue via the inferior colliculus to the auditory cortex.
Source: CRISP

Auditory pathway: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Auditory pathway:

• Auditory
• Pathway

Terms associated with Auditory pathway:

Related Topics

• Auditory Diseases, Central

Source - MeSH 2007

Broader terms for Auditory pathway

• Afferent Pathways

Source - MeSH 2007

• central neural pathway /tract

Source - CRISP

The term Auditory pathway can be used for:

• dorsal acoustic stria
• lateral lemniscus
• trapezoid body

Source: CRISP

Other terms that may be related to Auditory pathway:

• hearing
• inferior colliculus
• medial geniculate body
• olivary body
• pons
• reticular formation
• tegmentum

Source: CRISP

Hierarchical classifications of Auditory pathway

The following list attempts to classify Auditory pathway into categories where each line is subset of the next.

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Nervous System
  • Neural Pathways
    • Afferent Pathways
      • Auditory Pathways

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