Auricle Definition

ôrĭ-kəl
noun
The external part of the ear; pinna.
Webster's New World
An earlike part or organ.
Webster's New World
The outer projecting portion of the ear.
American Heritage Medicine
An earlobe-shaped part, process, or appendage, especially at the base of an organ.
American Heritage Medicine

(anatomy) The outer ear or pinna.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • auricula atrii
  • atrial auricle
  • ear
  • pinna
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Other Word Forms of Auricle

Noun

Singular:
auricle
Plural:
auricles

Origin of Auricle

  • Middle English auricle of the heart from Old French little ear from Latin auricula ear earlier diminutive of auris ear ous- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin auricula, diminutive of auris (“ear”)

    From Wiktionary

Auricle Sentence Examples

  • Aperture by which the left auricle joins the ventricle.

  • Six or seven species of mosquitoes are also the intermediate hosts of Filaria immitis, which infests the right auricle and pulmonary artery of the dog, and occurs throughout the tropics, in southern Europe, the United States of America, and elsewhere.

  • Each auricle forms the terminal enlargement of the efferent vein of the ctenidium of its own side.

  • Heart has only a single auricle, neither heart nor pericardium traversed by rectum.

  • No ctenidium, but a pulmonary cavity; heart with a single auricle, not traversed by the rectum.

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