Crossword clues for auditory
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Auditory \Au"di*to*ry\, n. [L. auditorium.]
An assembly of hearers; an audience.
An auditorium.
--Udall.
Auditory \Au"di*to*ry\, a. [L. auditorius.] Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear.
Auditory canal (Anat.), the tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Latin auditorius "pertaining to hearing," from auditor "hearer" (see auditor).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. Of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing Etymology 2
n. 1 (context archaic English) An assembly of hearers; an audience. 2 (context archaic English) An auditorium.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Auditory means of or relating to the process of hearing:
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Auditory system, the neurological structures and pathways of sound perception.
- Auditory bulla, part of auditory system found in mammals other than primates.
- Auditory nerve, also known as the cochlear nerve is one of two parts of a cranial nerve.
- Auditory ossicles, three bones in the middle ear that transmit sounds.
- Sound, the physical signal perceived by the auditory system.
- Hearing (sense), is the auditory sense, the sense by which sound is perceived.
- Ear, the auditory end organ.
- Cochlea, the auditory branch of the inner ear.
- Auditory illusion, sound trick analogous to an optical illusion.
- Primary auditory cortex, the part of the higher-level of the brain that serves hearing.
- External auditory meatus, the ear canal
- Auditory scene analysis, the process by which a scene containing many sounds is perceived
- Auditory phonetics, the science of the sounds of language
- Auditory hallucination,a form of hallucination that involves perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus
- Auditory imagery, hearing in head in the absence of sound
Usage examples of "auditory".
The last fact shows clearly that the higher powers of the mind can attain a high development on the basis of tactual and manipulatory abilities, and that these abilities can serve as the basis of a system of symbols of meanings hardly, if at all, less rich than is commonly developed from the basis of visual, auditory, and articulatory abilities.
Keying her auditory enhancers up a notch, Jin fell into her usual leftguard position in the loose diamond formation around Layn and crossed with the others under the trees at the edge of the clearing.
Dagan speaks of the issue of a lumbricoid from the external auditory meatus.
There never had been any discernible damage to the auditory nerves, no apparent disorder to the ossicle, cochlea, or eardrum of either ear.
The Martians had what appears to have been an auditory organ, a single round drum at the back of the head-body, and eyes with a visual range not very different from ours except that, according to Philips, blue and violet were as black to them.
Sound, for example, considered as physicalistic atmospheric concussions is quite unlike the auditory phenomenon of listening, say, to a symphony.
We could also assume that one of the cyborg-bacteria has hooked up to his auditory nerve in the same way as it did to yours, the only difference being that your bacteria is recording electrical pulses coming from your ear, while his bacteria is reproducing these pulses, inducing them in his auditory nerve.
Lloyd described a fetus showing absence of the external auditory meatus on both sides.
One case was that in which there was congenital absence of the external auditory meatus of both ears without much impairment of hearing.
In the afternoon the auditory canal was found excoriated and red, and deep in the meatus the kernel was found, covered with blood.
The bulging in the vicinity of the parietal region accords remarkably with speculations upon the location of the auditory memory in that region, such as those in the American Naturalist, July, 1888, and the fact that injury of that part of the brain may cause loss of memory of the meaning of words.
His auditory processing was exceptionally weak, although examination by a pediatric audiologist found his hearing acuity to be within normal limits.
Drugs, biofeedback, tactile and auditory and kinaesthetic stimulation-all carefully calculated for the maximum increase of both the number of neurotransmitters firing signals through the synapses of the brain and of the speed at which the signals raced.
Being thin and delicately poised, the membrana tympani is easily made to vibrate by the sound waves that enter the auditory canal.
Passing through the auditory canal, the waves strike against the membrana tympani, setting it into vibration.