cochlear root of vestibulocochlear nerve (medicine) and Andalusia (sh)

cochlear root of vestibulocochlear nerve (medicine)

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cochlear root of VIII nerve
<anatomy, nerve> One of the components of the vestibulocochlear nerve; it is made up of the central processes of the bipolar neurons which compose the spiral (cochlear) ganglion in the spiral canal of the modiolus of the bony cochlea; the cochlear root enters the cranial cavity by passing in fascicles through the spiral foraminous tract at the bottom of the internal auditory meatus; it enters the brainstem through the pontomedullary groove, closely adhering to the caudoventral aspect of the vestibular root, and distributes its fibres to the ventral and dorsal cochlear nuclei in the floor of the lateral recess of the fourth ventricle.

Synonym: radix cochlearis, cochlear root of vestibulocochlear nerve, inferior root of vestibulocochlear nerve, radix inferior nervi vestibulocochlearis.

Andalusia (sh)

Spanish Andalucia

Autonomous community (pop., 2001: 7,357,558) and historic region, southern Spain.

It occupies an area of 33,822 sq mi (87,599 sq km); the capital is Sevilla. It is traversed by mountain ranges, including the Sierra Morena and Sierra Nevada; its main river is the Guadalquivir. Andalusia has a long history of inhabitation: by the Phoenicians (at what is now Cadiz, с 1100 BC), the Carthaginians (480 BC), and the Romans. The Arabic name Al-Andalus was originally applied by the Moors to the whole Iberian Peninsula. When the Umayyad dynasty established its court at Cordoba, this area became the peninsula's intellectual and political centre. It returned to Spanish rule in 1492 and remained a province until divided in 1833 into the eight modern provinces. A mining and agricultural region, Andalusia also features beaches along the Costa del Sol that attract the tourist trade.

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