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A small cartilaginous flap in front of the external opening of the ear
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tragus
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The Tragus or Tragos ( Greek : ) is a river of Arcadia , Greece described by the ancient author Pausanias . Pausanias says the river issues from the inner side of the embankment surrounding the city of Caphyae near lake Orchomenus , after which it descends ...
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n. a small cartilaginous flap in front of the external opening of the ear [also: tragi (pl)]
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Tragus \Tra"gus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a part of the inner ear.] (Anat.) The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See Illust. under Ear .
Usage examples of tragus.
She was delivered of a normal living child, with the exception that the helix of the left ear was pushed anteriorly, and had, in its middle, a deep incision, which also traversed the antihelix and the tragus, and continued over the cheek toward the nose, where it terminated.
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.
Junior actually raised his trembling left hand to his ear, expecting to find the quarter tucked in the auditory canal, held between the tragus and the antitragus, waiting to be plucked with a flourish.