vestibulocochlear nerve
Cranial nerve that transmits sound and equilibrium (balance) information from the inner ear to the brain. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the vestibulocochlear nerve is
Cranial nerve that transmits sound and equilibrium (balance) information from the inner ear to the brain. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the vestibulocochlear nerve is
It sits in the head, within the nervous and sensory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the vestibulocochlear nerve connects to
The atlas records 10 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of vestibulo-auditory system.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the vestibulocochlear nerve. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.
Also called
Also recorded as 8n, CN-VIII, VIII nerve, VIIIth cranial nerve, acoustic VIII nerve and acoustic nerve, and 15 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001648, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: vestibulo-auditory system.
- A kind of: anatomical structure and cranial nerve.
- Innervates: cochlea.
- branching part of: cochlear nerve and vestibular nerve.
- contains: cochlear nerve and vestibular nerve.
- Develops from: otic placode.
- transports: internal acoustic meatus.
Questions
Where is the vestibulocochlear nerve?
It sits in the head, within the nervous and sensory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the vestibulocochlear nerve connect to?
Part of: vestibulo-auditory system.
Is the vestibulocochlear nerve the same in other species?
Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.