(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.
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.