What's the difference between aural and auricular?

Aural


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the air, or to an aura.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the ear; as, aural medicine and surgery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Findings included squamous epithelium with acute and chronic inflammation, foreign body granuloma and aural polyps.
  • (2) Literature review showed this to be the first reported case of sigmoid sinus thrombosis in congenital aural atresia.
  • (3) The last 23 patients with malignant external otitis were treated with ciprofloxacin 750 mg twice daily, combined with local excision of the aural lesion.
  • (4) This computerized speechreading assessment and training system simulates face-to-face intervention and is designed to be one component of a comprehensive aural rehabilitation program for preretirement adults with acquired mild-to-moderate hearing loss.
  • (5) Studies of aural and other body tissues suggest that otosclerosis represents the local manifestation of a general disorder of connective tissue.
  • (6) By using monoclonal antibodies against cell-membrane receptors the cellular composition of an aural cholesteatoma can be determined.
  • (7) The competencies expected of students upon completing their professional programs are presented in the form of 'training modules' vis-a-vis basic science, medical educational, hearing conservation, aural rehabilitation and clinical practicum.
  • (8) 29 min: There have been so many offside decisions in this game, the referee's whistle is currently more aurally intrusive than the vuvuzelas.
  • (9) In a review of over 600 patients with major congenital ear malformations, 50 patients (54 ears) were found to have congenital aural stenosis.
  • (10) Vessels were imaged with epi-illuminated fluorescence microscopy as they carried FITC-dextran 70 that had been injected into an aural vein.
  • (11) The first group received hearing aids and participated in a counseling-based aural rehabilitation (AR) program.
  • (12) We found that the histology of the aural polyp was not a precise predictor of the presence or absence of cholesteatoma, nor of the subsequent course of the middle ear disease.
  • (13) In total, 467 biopsy specimens from genital, anal, oral, aural and nasal lesions were examined for HPV6, HPV11, HPV16 and HPV18 DNA by spot hybridization.
  • (14) It would seem that these aural preparations are complementary, capable of resulting in the disappearance of the majority of bacterial agents responsible for pathogenic otorrhoea.
  • (15) A new method for removal of aural foreign bodies is introduced, employing the injection of a semifluid impression material into the external auditory canal, and its removal after curing with the engulfed foreign matter.
  • (16) Tests of reading and arithmetic achievement, visuomotor coordination, aural-visual coordination, auditory discrimination, and behavioural rating scales were administered.
  • (17) The Gruber aural speculum, gave a completely, uninterrupted view of the choana.
  • (18) People might not be facing an incident, but they can still have an acoustic experience of it.” Deprived of their visual sense for months and years on end, the Saydnaya detainees developed an acute aural sensitivity, able to identify the different sounds of belts, electrical cables or broomsticks on flesh, and the difference between bodies being punched, kicked or beaten against the wall.
  • (19) The large number of children wearing inadequate amplification demonstrates the need for constant hearing aid monitoring and earmold check as part of aural rehabilitation and educational programs for hearing-impaired children.
  • (20) Temporal response to a simulated rapid change in acoustic immittance was recorded from 13 aural acoustic-immittance devices.

Auricular


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves.
  • (a.) Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest.
  • (a.) Recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence.
  • (a.) Received by the ear; known by report.
  • (a.) Pertaining to the auricles of the heart.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clonidine and methysergide constrict the rabbit auricular artery by activating smooth muscle alpha-adrenoceptors.
  • (2) In the observation of the serial sections, capillary plexuses were able to be confirmed along the periphery, very close to the auricular cartilage.
  • (3) One case with embolic cardiac infarction is described, that had developed in a patient with mitral-aortic valvular defect with auricular fibrillation and simultaneous embolic dissemination in the right middle cerebral and superior mesenteric arteries.
  • (4) The small part of the flap that passed underneath the auricular skin or through the auricular cartilage is deepithelialized.
  • (5) Seven peripheral vein sites were successfully venipunctured in unanaesthetized chinchillas: the femoral, cephalic, auricular, saphenous, dorsalis penis, lateral abdominal and tail veins.
  • (6) Histologic study showed that the growth of transplanted auricular cartilage is achieved jointly by two mechanisms, namely interstitial growth and appositional growth.
  • (7) Viable auricular cartilage was found in all grafted joints.
  • (8) In the region of sacroiliac articulation are the highest subchondral densities, both at the cranial and caudal edges, whereas the central part of the two auricular surfaces is less heavily mineralized.
  • (9) The technique consists of wide undermining of supranasal and paranasal skin, use of composite auricular grafts from the ear to lengthen the upper lateral cartilages, use of a chondromucosal septal flap for lengthening the septum, and postoperative downward taping to assure adequate stretching of dorsal skin for the first-stage procedure.
  • (10) The drop of T3 may play a part also in the antiarrhythmic action of amiodarone in the treatment of auricular fibrillation.
  • (11) Comparisons are made to intracellular binding in chondrocytes of tracheal, articular, and auricular cartilage.
  • (12) Application of a sensitizing dose of DNFB to the ear resulted in a significant increase in the number of cells recovered from the draining auricular and cervical lymph nodes, 4 and 6 days post sensitization.
  • (13) Through electroencephalographic recording of an experimentally induced epileptic seizure, existence of the "auricular reflex epilepsy" described in about 30 reports dating from the past century is now objectively demonstrated.
  • (14) From the various parts of the sacrum (body, facets, alae and laminae) distinct sets of trabeculae extend towards the auricular surface.
  • (15) The damaged inferior alveolar nerve of rabbit was repaired with autogenous ipsilateral greater auricular nerve grafting primarily and secondarily, and electrophysiological, ultrastructural, microvascular and histochemical investigations were performed in this study.
  • (16) The results support earlier morphological findings, indicating that perichondrium from rib cartilage has a better ability to regenerate than auricular perichondrium.
  • (17) Corporeal acupuncture (CA), intal specific hyposensitization (SH) increased 100 times the resistance to allergens; auricular acupuncture (AA), combination of CA with intal increased it 100-fold; SH and CA 1000-fold.
  • (18) A superior salivary nucleus, a root, pterygopalatine, submandibular, sublingual and auricular (in man) parasympathetic ganglia of the head, peripheral branches.
  • (19) According to the results of electrocardiogram patients were subdivided into 4 groups: normal electrocardiogram, isolated left auricular hypertrophy (LAH), isolated left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and major ST-T wave changes.
  • (20) The presence of the posterior auricular myogenic reflex was infectigated in healthy subjects.