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Definition of Auricle

1. Noun. A small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart.

2. Noun. The externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear.

Definition of Auricle

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

Definition of Auricle

1. Noun. (anatomy) The outer ear or pinna. ¹

2. Noun. (anatomy) An ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the heart. ¹

3. Noun. (anatomy) An atrium, the smaller of the two types of heart chamber. ¹

4. Noun. (botany) Any appendage in the shape of an earlobe ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Auricle

1. an ear or ear-shaped part [n -S] : AURICLED [adj]

Medical Definition of Auricle

1. An ear-shaped appendage at the base of a leaf, leaflet or corolla lobe. Adj. Auriculate. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Auricle

aureoles aureolic acid aureoling aureolæ aureomycin aures aureus auri- aurian auriasis

auric auric acid aurichalceous aurichalcite aurichalcites auricle (current term) auricle of atrium auricle of left atrium auricle of right atrium auricled

auricles auricula auricula atrialis auricula atrii auricula dextra auricula sinistra auriculae auricular auricular appendix

Literary usage of Auricle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"In order to examine the interior of the left auricle, make an incision on the posterior surface of the auricle from the pulmonary veins on one side to those ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"The Venous Poise in Fibrillation of the auricle in the Mammalian Heart, with Reference to the Venous Pulse in Pulsus Irregularis Perpetuus. ..."

3. The Lancet (1898)
"Thus, too, is explained why the time of closure of these valves is variable, depending as it does on the relative pressures within the ventricle and auricle ..."

4. Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear: Medical and Surgical by William Lincoln Ballenger (1911)
"The natural contour of the auricle is modified by the swollen tissue, ... The perichondrium of the entire auricle may become detached and thus interfere ..."

5. An American Text-book of Physiology by William Henry Howell (1900)
"Connections of the auricle.—Into the right and left auricles open the systemic and pulmonary veins respectively, and each auricle may justly be regarded ..."

6. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"When this instrument is applied to the right auricle and ventricle some such record ... 39, where the upper curve is a tracing taken from the right auricle, ..."

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