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Notes
- 1.
Some authors use the term “ganglion” for the trigeminal nucleus, but it seems more appropriate to use the term “nucleus” for clusters of nerve cells where synaptic communication occurs. The word “ganglion” should be reserved for clusters of cell bodies, such as the dorsal root ganglia. This is in accordance with the definitions by Stedman’s Electronic Medical Dictionary: A ganglion is: originally, any group of nerve cell bodies in the central or peripheral nervous system; currently, an aggregation of nerve cell bodies located in the peripheral nervous system.
- 2.
In neuroanatomy, a nucleus is a group of nerve cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord that can be demarcated from neighboring groups on the basis of either differences in cell type or the presence of a surrounding zone of nerve fibers or cell-poor neuropil.
Abbreviations
- AAF:
-
Anterior auditory (cortical) field
- AES:
-
Anterior ectosylvian sulcus area
- AI:
-
Primary auditory cortex
- AII:
-
Secondary auditory cortex
- AN:
-
Auditory nerve
- AVCN:
-
Anterior ventral cochlear nuclei
- C2 :
-
Upper segment of the cervical spine
- CN:
-
Cochlear nucleus
- COCB:
-
Crossed olivocochlear bundle
- DC:
-
Dorsal cortex (of IC)
- DNLL:
-
Dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus
- DPOAE:
-
Distortion product otoacoustic emission
- DRG:
-
Dorsal root ganglion
- DZ:
-
Dorsal auditory zone
- ED:
-
Posterior ectosylvian gyrus dorsal part
- EI:
-
Posterior ectosylvian
- EV:
-
Posterior ectosylvian gyrus
- IC:
-
Inferior colliculus
- ICC:
-
Central nucleus of the IC
- ICX:
-
External nucleus of the IC
- IHC:
-
Inner hair cells
- In:
-
Insular
- LL:
-
Lateral lemniscus
- LSO:
-
Lateral superior olive
- MG:
-
Medial geniculate body
- MSO:
-
Medial superior olive
- NLL:
-
Nucleus of the lateral lemniscus
- NTB:
-
Nucleus of the trapezoidal body
- OCB:
-
Olivocochlear bundle
- OHC:
-
Outer hair cells
- PAF:
-
Posterior auditory (cortical) field
- PVCN:
-
Posterior ventral cochlear nuclei
- SH:
-
Stria of Held (intermediate stria)
- SM:
-
Stria of Monakow (dorsal stria)
- SOC:
-
Superior olivary complex
- SOE:
-
Spontaneous otoacoustic emission
- Sp5:
-
Trigeminal nucleus
- Te:
-
Temporal cortex
- TEOAE:
-
Transient evoked otoacoustic emissions
- UCOCB:
-
Uncrossed olivocochlear bundle
- Ve:
-
Auditory cortex ventral area
- VNLL:
-
Ventral nucleus of the lateral lemniscus
- VP:
-
Auditory cortex ventral posterior area
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Møller, A.R. (2011). Anatomy and Physiology of the Auditory System. In: Møller, A.R., Langguth, B., De Ridder, D., Kleinjung, T. (eds) Textbook of Tinnitus. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-145-5_8
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