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noun

Auricle n.

(Anat.)

(a)

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

(b)

The chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart.

(Zool.) An angular or ear-shaped lobe.

An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Auricle" Quotes from Famous Books

... pipes—blue from me to that carburetor arrangement, red on the way back in—and I figured out the whole arrangement. Carbon dioxide still exhales up through your lungs, but the vein back to the left auricle is routed through the carburetor and supercharged with oxygen. A man doesn't need to breathe. The carburetor flushes his blood with oxygen, the decompression tank adjusts him to the lack of air-pressure. There's only one thing to look out for; that's not to ...

— Sjambak • John Holbrook Vance

Words linked to "Auricle" : ear, auricula atrii, cauliflower ear, pouch, auricular, pocket, cartilaginous structure, pinna, atrium cordis, external ear, earlobe, auriculate