(n.) The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An angular or ear-shaped lobe.
(n.) An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet.
Example Sentences:
(1) This article presents the author's preferred technique for reconstructing the auricle, simultaneously using Mustarde's mattress sutures, Cochrane's anterior scoring of the antihelix, and the approximating of the concha to the mastoid.
(2) Analogous results were obtained in semithin sections of GMA-embedded auricles stained by the periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) technique.
(3) The influence of electrolyte composition and glucose concentration of a cryoprotective medium on the survival of auricle fragments from adult rat hearts after storage at -196 degrees C was investigated.
(4) Microangiopathic changes were observed on the material obtained by skin biopsy of the auricle and the reason for selecting this localization was explained.
(5) 74 rat incisor odontogenic organs were autotransplanted intradermally into the auricle.
(6) Therefore, lg1 mutant sectors not only fail to induce ligule and auricle, but are also disrupting some form of intercellular communication that is necessary for the normally coordinated development of the ligular region.
(7) The patient has a typical saddle nose and drooping auricles.
(8) In 135 patients with mitral stenosis of the III and IV stages oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondria of the left cardiac auricle was studied by the polarographic method.
(9) Besides the negative inotropic action of ethanol on cardiac muscle, this paper describes also an "indirect effect" which appears when the ethanol treated isolated strip auricle preparation is washed with low Ca Tyrode solution.
(10) In our histological examination of 42 ears (auricles) which were taken from 18 fetus and three adults, the intracartilaginous fibrous tissue with blood vessels and lymphatics were found in 12 ears and interruption of the auricular cartilage in 22 ears.
(11) This presentation will review two such cases as well as give an overview of the embryogenesis and teratogenesis of the auricle.
(12) In 1952, Goldenhar described a pair of monozygotic twins who were discordant for epibulbar dermoids, auricular appendages, malformations of the auricle, and hemifacial microsomia.
(13) Normal LE rats had low levels of left ventricular ANP mRNA and barely detectable ANP mRNA in the right ventricle, DI rats showed a 3-fold greater ANP mRNA concentration in the left ventricle than age-matched LE controls, and ANP mRNA levels were also increased in the left auricle of DI rats.
(14) (1) The increase in plasma ANF during volume expansion is not impaired in SHR with newly established hypertension; (2) captopril treatment decreases afterload and the changes in left ventricular end diastolic pressure during volume expansion in SHR, without affecting plasma ANF increases; (3) both the auricles, but not the ventricles, contribute to enhanced ANF secretion caused by acute volume expansion in SHR and WKY rats.
(15) The highest potassium decrease was observed in the left ventricle and right auricle.
(16) Biopsies of right auricle of human heart have been obtained during open heart surgery from 6 patients aged 23 to 49.
(17) Engel (1966) was the first to report a series of pseudocysts of the auricle in Chinese.
(18) A linear skin incision was made, beginning behind the auricle and extending along the anterior margin of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, and the sternocleidomastoid muscle was divided just below the tip of the mastoid process.
(19) 1) auricles on the posterior segment were absent, 2) five pairs of eyes were present in the anterior segments with the eye pairs 3 and 4 separated by an annulus, and 3) teeth were not observed, this specimen was identified as Dinobdella ferox.
(20) The effect of Na and K ions on active Na transport was studied in guinea-pig auricles by means of flame photometry.
Auricula
Definition:
(n.) A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear.
(n.) A species of Hirneola (H. auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Judae, or Jew's-ear.
(n.) A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish
(n.) One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Morphometric investigations of capillaries in the muscle fibers have been carried out in the atrial walls, in the right and left auriculae.
(2) Most frequently in these patients a prolapse of the mitral valve is found, a foramen ovale patents, an aneurysm of the atrial septum, sometimes thrombi in the left auricula atrialis of an otherwise quite normal heart.
(3) The occipital belly is also active during smiling and yawning, and can be active during the movements of the auricula.
(4) We studied carefully and first of all systematically size, form and condition of the auricula.
(5) Follow-up of 103 patients with squamous cell carcinomas of the auricula showed that 20 of them developed regional lymph node metastases.
(6) Asymptomatic papular lesions had appeared on the dorsum of both of his feet 30 years earlier, then extended gradually and symmetrically to his hands, arms, legs, trunk, and auriculae.
(7) Concave autogenous cartilage from the upper part of the concha auriculae trimmed in three pieces to protect attic, mastoid, and middle ear for graft retraction has been successfully used in 106 surgical procedures.
(8) Rhinoplasty cases require use of a cartilaginous graft from the concha auriculae.
(9) In the rat hearts with healed infarctions the amount of polyploid nuclei was increased both in the myocytes of the auricle and of the auricula atrii.
(10) The magnesium concentration in skeletal muscle was found to correlate with that in right auricula (r = 0.46, p less than 0.01) and right atrium (r = 0.43, p less than 0.01), whereas values in serum and lymphocytes showed no correlation with the heart's magnesium content.
(11) Particular otologic findings were a non-progressive inner ear hearing loss bordering on deafness, a fungus-covered cell detritus in the cartilaginous part of the external ear canal, and hyperkeratosis of the auricula.
(12) For the investigation the skin area 2 X 2 sm large has been chosen on the internal surface of the right concha auriculae 6 sm below the upper edge of the ear.
(13) On the third postoperative day the myocytes of the myocardium of senescent rats weighing 300-430 g proliferated in the left auricular appendage (mitotic index--from 1 to 5.1%) and in the right auricula appendage (in one of 8 cases, mitotic index 4.2%).
(14) Muscle specimens were obtained from right auricula of patients undergoing open-heart surgery.
(15) The pathogenesis of bluetongue infection was studied by the titration of the virus in tissue samples taken from sheep inoculated subcutaneously in the auricula of the ear with 76 TC ID50 of the plaque-purified type 10 bluetongue virus.
(16) In the myocytes of the auricula atril the amount of the labeled nuclei peaked on the 5th day, and that of mitoses--on the 7th day.
(17) The uptake in vitro of 3H-noradrenaline in irides and heart auriculae, as well as the noradrenaline terminal density in the dilator plate and surrounding blood vessels in the iris, were unaffected by repeated capsaicin treatment to developing rats.
(18) By means of the retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase (HP) method sensitive innervation of the rabbit concha auriculae skin has been studied.
(19) These terminals constitute the afferent link of the pathway that accounts for the analgesia obtained after electrical stimulation of the concha auriculae.
(20) The noradrenaline level in the iris was significantly increased (+42%), while no significant changes in noradrenaline level were observed in heart auricula or superior cervical ganglion.