auricle

English

Etymology

From Latin auricula, diminutive of auris (“ear”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɒɹəkəl/; (UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːɹɪkəl/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: oracle (in some accents)

Noun

auricle (plural auricles)

1. (anatomy) The outer ear or pinna.
2. (anatomy) An ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the heart.
3. (anatomy) An atrium, the smaller of the two types of chamber in the heart.
4. (botany) Any appendage in the shape of an earlobe.

Synonyms

• (outer ear): pinna, pavilion

Derived terms

• auricled

Related terms

• auricular

Translations

outer ear — see pinna

an ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the heart

• Bulgarian: сърдечно ухо (sǎrdečno uho)
• Catalan: aurícula f
• Czech: ouško (cs) n
• Finnish: sydänkorvake
• Hungarian: fülcse
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: aurikulo (io)
• Interlingue:
• Polish: uszko (pl) n
• Portuguese: aurícula f
• Tagalog: silid-anuran

smaller of the two types of heart chamber — see atrium

botany: appendage in the shape of an earlobe

• Catalan: aurícula f
• Finnish: korvake (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingue:
• Portuguese: aurícula f
• Spanish: aurícula (es) f

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Italian: orecchietta (1), padiglione (2), auricola (1,4)
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