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vestibuloacoustic

vestibuloacoustic adjective: vestibular and acoustic.

Adjective

vestibuloacoustic (not comparable)

  1. vestibular and acoustic
    • They lack sensory organs/neurons derived from the olfactory placode (olfactory epithelium, vomeronasal organ and gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons) and the otic placode (cochlea, vestibule and vestibuloacoustic ganglion), and show reduced neural differentiation in the distal portion of the...2015 August 28, “Activation of Six1 Expression in Vertebrate Sensory Neurons”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of vestibuloacoustic

From vestibulo- + acoustic.

Questions about vestibuloacoustic

What does vestibuloacoustic mean?
Vestibuloacoustic means vestibular and acoustic.
What part of speech is vestibuloacoustic?
Vestibuloacoustic is an adjective.

Words near vestibuloacoustic in the dictionary

  1. vestibuliferids
  2. vestibuling
  3. vestibulitis
  4. vestibulo-
  5. vestibulo-ocular
  6. vestibuloacoustic
  7. vestibulocerebella
  8. vestibulocerebellar
  9. vestibulocerebellum
  10. vestibulocerebellums
  11. vestibulocochlear

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