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Auricle

Auricle \Au"ri*cle\, n. [L. auricula, dim. of auris ear. See Ear.]

  1. (Anat.)

    1. The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head.

    2. The chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) An angular or ear-shaped lobe.

  3. An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet.
    --Mansfield.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
auricle

part of the ear, 1650s, from Latin auricula "ear," diminutive of auris (see ear (n.1)). As a chamber of the heart, early 15c., from Latin, so called from a perceived similarity in shape to an animal's ear.

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auricle

n. 1 (context anatomy English) The outer ear or pinna. 2 (context anatomy English) An ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the heart. 3 (context anatomy English) An atrium, the smaller of the two types of chamber in the heart. 4 (context botany English) Any appendage in the shape of an earlobe.

WordNet
auricle

  1. n. a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart [syn: atrial auricle, auricula atrii]

  2. the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear [syn: pinna, ear]

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Auricle (anatomy)

The auricle or auricula is the visible part of the ear that resides outside of the head. It is also called the pinna ( Latin for wing / fin, plural pinnae), a term that is used more in zootomy.

Auricle

Auricle is an Anglicization of Latin auricula, from auris "ear" and -cula, a diminutive suffix.

Auricle and auricula may refer to:

  • Auricle Ensemble, chamber ensemble
  • Auricular style, ornamental style based on parts of the human anatomy
Auricle (botany)

In botany, an auricle is a small ear-like projection from the base of a leaf or petal.

Usage examples of "auricle".

Indrawing Auricle, the Airward Ventricle, the Airdrawing Auricle, and the Outflowing Ventricle.

Observe the openings into the auricle, there being one each for the vena cava superior, the vena cava inferior, and the coronary vein.

From the liver it is passed through the hepatic veins into the inferior vena cava, and by these it is emptied into the right auricle.

Warner, in a report of the examination of 50,000 children, quoted by Ballantyne, describes 33 with supernumerary auricles, represented by sessile or pedunculated outgrowths in front of the tragus.

The skin passed naturally over the chest from one side to another, but was raised at one part of the groove by a pulsatile swelling which occupied the position of the right auricle.

The ventricles keep a pressure on the blood which is sufficient to force it through all the blood tubes and back to the auricles.

Lately he was increasingly frightened by his emotional detachment, an unwanted but apparently irreversible hardening of the heart that would soon leave him with auricles of marble and ventricles of common stone.

Your pulmonary veins take the fresh blood to the right auricle, and the right ventricle pumps it through an aortic arch that swings over to the right.

Birds and reptiles, which lack auricles, do have short auditory canals and so do not lack external ears altogether.

Together the auricle and the auditory canal make up the external ear.

The muscular tissue around the right auricle was discolored and soft.

From it the doctors insert a connecting cable through the superior vena cava to the right auricle of the heart.