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Definition of Auricular appendage

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

Medical Definition of Auricular appendage

1. A small congenital skin tag usually located anterior to the tragus of the ear, often called a skin tag; more often unilateral than bilateral. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Auricular Appendage

Literary usage of Auricular appendage

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

1. Diseases of the Ear: A Text-book for Practitioners and Students of Medicine by Edward Bradford Dench (1909)
"auricular appendage. FlO. 68.—Fistula congenita auris. (a, fistula.) the opposite side the site of the fistula was occupied by a shallow depression which ..."

2. Diseases of the ear in childhood: By Dr. Gustav Alexander, Tr. by Arthur J by Gustav Alexander, Arthur Joseph Bedell (1914)
"Congenital atresia of the external auditory duct with defective development of the helix ascendens (a) and a pre-auricular appendage (6). (Natural size. ..."

3. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"At the base appears a part of the auricular appendage of the left auricle (d), and at the right a part of the right auricular appendage (c). ..."

4. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"... la left auricular appendage; ra right auricular appendage ; rv right ventricle ; lv left ventricle ; b. truncus arteriosus. enters the sinus obliquely ..."

5. A treatise on the theory and practice of medicine by John Syer Bristowe (1880)
"The left auricular appendage slightly overlaps the upper edge of the left ... The right auricular appendage extends from about the same level above ..."

6. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1887)
"The conditions regarded as necessary by Naunyn and Balfour were, the dilatation of the auricular appendage, and, by its dilatation, its near approach to the ..."

7. The Blood Supply to the Heart in Its Anatomical and Clinical Aspects by Louis Gross (1921)
"The second anterior branch to the auricles from the right coronary artery is less constant. It ascends the aortic face of the right auricular appendage and ..."

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