auditorium

[AUDITORY, 8.] 1. The place allotted to an audience as in a a church or public hall, or to visitors, as in a monastery. 2. Also (U. S.) a building for public meetings or public performances. âu'-dit-or-ship, s. [Eng. auditor; and suff. -ship.] The office, dignity, or functions of an auditor. "... the auditorship of the exchequer." - Johnson : Life of Halifax. (Richardson.) âu-dit-or-ỹ, * âu-dit-or-ie, a. [From Lat. auditor i us = relating to a hearer or hearing; from audio = to hear.] 1. Ord. Lang. & Anat. Pertaining to the organs of hearing. 2. Perceived by means of the organs of hearing. the auditory perception of the report."-Airg on Sound (1868), p. 135. The Auditory Artery is a ramification of the internal carotid one, the several branches of which are distributed through the brain. The Auditory Canal , or external meatus of the ear, is considered to belong to the external portion of that organ. It extends inward from the concha for rather more than an inch. Part of it is cartilaginous and part o eous. (Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat . , vol. ii., p. 67.) The Auditory Nerve, called also the Acoustic Nerve, enters the ear by the internal auditory canal, and divides into two leading branches, which again subdivide to an amazing extent. It is remarkably soft in texture. The auditory and the facial nerves together constitute the seventh pair of nerves in Will is's arrangement. "We wish to extend our inquiries from the auditory nerve to the optic nerve." - Tyndall : Frag. of Science (3rd ed.), vii. 133. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0891.png:[blocks in formation]