Auricle

Right at the start of my experiments upon animals it had occurred to me, as to other investigators, that one could penetrate diagonally through the right auricle from the upper into the lower vena cava. ❋ Unknown (1964)

The external part of the ear is called the auricle, or outward ear, which is a cartilaginous funnel, connected to the bones of the temple, by means of cellular substance, and likewise by its own proper ligaments and muscles. ❋ Thomas Garnett (1784)

With a skillful pressing movement of her auricle, which is used as a hammer, she pushes the gathered gold into her baskets. ❋ Amp;34;Nutrition (2010)

25 THE HUMAN BRAIN The auricle is another uniquely mammalian feature. ❋ Asimov, Isaac (1963)

Abbreviations: P, the outside opening of the pneumostome (breathing hole); MC, mantle collar (the front edge of the mantle that is fused to the top of the head in a live snail); K, kidney, V, ventricle; A, auricle (the ventricle and the auricle together make up the heart); R, rectum (its opening is within the pneumostome); L, lung. ❋ AYDIN (2009)

The peripheral system includes the external ear (auricle and ear canal), the tympanic membrane, or eardrum, the middle ear (three small and connected bones: malleus, incus, and stapes), the oval window boundary, and the inner ear (vestibular system and cochlea). ❋ Michael F. Roizen (2010)

The eight tribal leaders were scheduled to meet each other on Monday in Wana to discuss plans to achieve peace between between security forces and insurgents. and it reminded me of an auricle that I have neglected to post. ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)

Slice through to whichever interior chamber you hit first — auricle or ventricle — and lay the heart out open. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So that, in his view (Fig. 2), the course of the blood was from the intestine to the liver, and from the liver into the great ‘vena cava’, including what we now call the right auricle of the heart, whence it was distributed by the branches of the veins. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Furthermore, he demonstrated that the cavities of the left side of the heart — what we now call the left auricle and the left ventricle — are, like the arteries, full of blood during life, and that that blood was of the scarlet kind — arterialised, or as he called it ❋ Unknown (2007)

The auricle of my ear felt fresh, rough, cool, succulent to the touch, like a leaf. ❋ Unknown (2005)

All things, in short, permit us to believe that in the embryo the blood must constantly pass by this foramen from the vena cava into the pulmonary vein, and from thence into the left auricle of the heart; and having once entered there, it can never regurgitate. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In some men of sturdier frame and stouter make the right auricle is so strong, and so curiously constructed on its inner surface of bands and variously interlacing fibres, that it seems to equal in strength the ventricle of the heart in other subjects; and I must say that I am astonished to find such diversity in this particular in different individuals. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In fishes and frogs, and other animals which have hearts with but a single ventricle, and for an auricle have a kind of bladder much distended with blood, at the base of the organ, you may very plainly perceive this bladder contracting first, and the contraction of the heart or ventricle following afterwards. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In like manner, wherever the heart has a single ventricle, there is an auricle appended, flaccid, membranous, hollow, filled with blood; and where there are two ventricles, there are likewise two auricles. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The auricles are prime movers of the blood, especially the right auricle, which, as already said, is “the first to live, the last to die”; whence they are subservient to sending the blood into the ventricles, which, contracting continuously, more readily and forcibly expel the blood already in motion; just as the ball-player can strike the ball more forcibly and further if he takes it on the rebound than if he simply threw it. ❋ Unknown (2005)