What is the meaning of eighth cranial nerve?

A composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea.
- synonyms: acoustic nerve, auditory nerve, vestibulocochlear nerve, nervus vestibulocochlearis

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