auditory system
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| Noun | 1. |  auditory system - the sensory system for hearing auditory apparatus - all of the components of the organ of hearing including the outer and middle and inner ears ear - the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium acoustic nerve, auditory nerve, eighth cranial nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis, vestibulocochlear nerve - a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea sensory system - the body's system of sense organs audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing, hearing - the ability to hear; the auditory faculty; "his hearing was impaired" |
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