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/ˈɔːɹɪkəl/
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NOUN
- the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear
- a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart
How To Use auricle In A Sentence
- Methods Ear auricle was reconstructed with auto rib cartilage bracket and expanded mastoid region skin.
- The heart appears to be the most primitive of all adult vertebrates, with the auricle, ventricle and conus arteriosus arranged in straight line, rather than being doubled over one another.
- Inflammation or infection of external auditory canal and auricle.
- The auricles are small, clearly separated from the anterior and posterior margins of the shell and are found in the plane of the closing of the valves.
- The _leaf-blade_ is very long 1/6 to 1/4 inch broad, auricled at the base, narrowed into very finely acuminate or capillary tips midrib prominent; scaberulous on both the surfaces and with long hairs on the auricles. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- The auricles communicate with the ventricles each by a large aperture, the auriculo-ventricular orifice, which is furnished with a remarkable mechanism of valves, allowing the transmission of blood from the auricles into the ventricles, but preventing a reverse course. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
- The middle section is a simple ventricle, and the hindmost, the section turned towards the dorsal side, into which the vitelline veins inosculate, is a simple auricle (or atrium). The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
- 25 THE HUMAN BRAIN The auricle is another uniquely mammalian feature. The Human Brain
- In L. capitata the leaves are mostly basal while L. intybacea leaves ½ amplexicaul, auriculate, auricles rounded with long fine points.
- The heart is not quadrilocular (i.e., of four chambers), but trilocular (of three), and two structures, not seen in Lepus, the truncus arteriosus and the sinus venosus, into the latter of which the venous blood runs before entering the right auricle, are to be noted. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata