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Ear projection
Answer for the clue "Ear projection ", 7 letters:
auricle
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Word definitions for auricle in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In botany , an auricle is a small ear -like projection from the base of a leaf or petal .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Auricle \Au"ri*cle\, n. [L. auricula, dim. of auris ear. See Ear .] (Anat.) The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head. The chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted ...
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.