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Definition of Auricula

1. Noun. Yellow-flowered primrose native to Alps; commonly cultivated.

2. Noun. A pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart.

Definition of Auricula

1. n. A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear.

Definition of Auricula

1. Noun. (anatomy) The external part of the ear ¹

2. Noun. (anatomy) A small conical pouch projecting from either atrium of the heart ¹

3. Noun. (palynology) A pronounced thickening at the corner of a trilete spore, beyond the end of the laesura ¹

4. Noun. (gardening plural: auriculas) The ornamental primrose ''Primula auricula'' ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Auricula

1. an auricle [n -LAS or -LAE] - See also: auricle

Medical Definition of Auricula

1. Origin: L. Auricula. See Auricle. 1. (a) A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear. A species of Hirneola (H. Auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Judae, or Jew's-ear. 2. A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin. (19 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Auricula

aureus auri- aurian auriasis auric auric acid aurichalceous aurichalcite aurichalcites auricle

auricle of atrium auricle of left atrium auricle of right atrium auricled auricles auricula (current term) auricula atrialis auricula atrii auricula dextra auricula sinistra

auriculae auricular auricular appendix auricular arc auricular artery auricular branch of occipital artery auricular branch of vagus nerve auricular canaliculus auricular cartilage

Literary usage of Auricula

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

1. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"As a garden flower the auricula has been grown and esteemed in England since the ... Up to the end of the eighteenth century the Show auricula produced ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The lymphatic vessels of the auricula and external acoustic meatus are also divisible into three groups: (a) an anterior, from the lateral surface of the ..."

3. Catalogue of Auriculidae, Proserpinidae, and Truncatellidae in the by Ludwig Georg Karl Píeiffer (1857)
"Genera: auricula, Scarabus ... with the genera Carychium and auricula. The same name is used by Fitzinger ... and auricula (subgenera Carychium, auricula, ..."

4. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"The latter occurs in the upper Miocene of Virginia and Maryland, and differs but slightly from C. auricula in having rounded rather than subtriangular ..."

5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"auricula, Lam. Differing from all the preceding aquatic ... auricula myosotis, Drap. Ill, 16, 17; Carychium myosotis, ..."

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