(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.
Pinna
Definition:
(n.) A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.
(n.) One of the primary divisions of a decompound leaf.
(n.) One of the divisions of a pinnate part or organ.
(n.) Any species of Pinna, a genus of large bivalve mollusks found in all warm seas. The byssus consists of a large number of long, silky fibers, which have been used in manufacturing woven fabrics, as a curiosity.
(n.) The auricle of the ear. See Ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is felt that otologic surgery should be done before the pinna reconstruction as it is very important to try and introduce sound into these children at an early age.
(2) In any rat receiving either level of T-2588, pinna reflex impairment was not detected at any frequencies.
(3) The chamber is fixed in the tissues of the rabbit pinna by means of a lavsan net.
(4) This paper describes the external ear anomalies found in this syndrome: short wide pinnae, often cupped and asymmetrical; distinctive triangular concha; discontinuity between the antihelix and antitragus; and 'snipped-off' portions of the helical folds.
(5) CAM inhibited the pinna reflex more strongly than did morphine and selectively antagonized quipazine-induced head twitches; its inhibition of head twitches induced by 5-hydroxytryptophan or LSD seemed unspecific.
(6) Concanavalin A and, to a lesser degree, other immunomodulators applied, when administered subcutaneously into the pinna, also have induced perichondrial chondrogenesis.
(7) A case of tinea of the pinna, mistaken for chondritis, is presented.
(8) It has been found previously under the light microscope that there was a circadian variation in mast cell number in the pinna of mice.
(9) 172, 451-457] and recently identified as the product of the lyn oncogene [Brunati, A. M., Donella-Deana, A., Ralph, S., Marchiori, F., Borin, G., Fischer, S. & Pinna, L. A.
(10) Since the hemisection of the spinal cord at T6 suppresses this reflex in the pinna of the same side, it must be concluded that the spinal pathway is ipsilateral.
(11) The variation in auditory space representation in the IC due to variation in pinna position is presented.
(12) A case of severe Pseudomonas perichondritis following a 'fashionable' ear-piercing procedure, performed high on the pinna, is reported.
(13) Tetradecane (TD), testosterone (TS), and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) were separately inuncted on rabbit pinnas once a day; the pinnas were biopsied on days 1, 3, 7, and 28.
(14) The directional properties of the external ear are based on sound diffraction by the pinna mouth, which, to a first approximation, is equivalent to an elliptical opening due to the elongated shape of the pinna.
(15) Although BRL 39123 failed to eradicate the virus from mice latently infected with HSV-1, treatment initiated 5 h after infection of the ear pinna reduced the numbers of mice that developed latent infections.
(16) This may be a more correct value since the PLM method overestimates the median S-phase length as it is known that in pinna skin the [3H]TdR is available to the tissues for 2 hr and true flash labelling does not take place.
(17) Attempts to create a pinna by moulding cartilage fragments have been reported previously by Peer.
(18) Thermal characteristics of the pinnae of the ears of New Zealand White rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were measured with an infrared imaging system, and vasomotor oscillations were observed to occur spontaneously in the pinnae of all rabbits at an ambient temperature of 20 degrees C. Measured fluctuations in surface temperature were used to characterize the observed vasomotor oscillations, whereas heat loss from the pinnae was calculated using the mean pinna temperatures.
(19) We refined the method by which neonatal mouse hearts are transplanted into pouches in the pinnae of ears of adult recipient mice and used cyclosporine treatment as an example of how this method might be generally applied to study the dose-response relationship of immunosuppressive drugs.
(20) Auricular perichondritis developed in a patient following acupuncture to the pinna.