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Pinna

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auriclenoun(anatomy) The outer ear or pinna.
earnoun(countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
pinnulenoun(botany) Any of the ultimate leaflets of a bipinnate or tripinnate leaf; a subleaflet.

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earnoun(countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
auriclenoun(anatomy) The outer ear or pinna.
pinnulenoun(botany) Any of the ultimate leaflets of a bipinnate or tripinnate leaf; a subleaflet.
earlapnounA flap connected to headgear to protect the ear (against the cold, or physical harm); an earflap.
spnounSpanish (language)
outer earnoun(anatomy) The outer portion of the ear which includes the auricle and the ear canal and leads to the eardrum.
auriculanoun(anatomy) The external part of the ear.
pavilionnounA light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
external earnoun(anatomy) The outer ear.
anotianoun(teratology) A rare congenital deformity where the pinna or auricle, the outer projected portion of the ear, is completely absent.
auricularnounThe little finger, the outermost and smallest finger of the hand.
ear canalnoun(anatomy) The tube or meatus running from the outer ear to the eardrum through which sound enters.
earholenounThe outer aperture of the ear; the entrance to the ear canal.
ear lobenounThe lower, exterior, fleshy, bulbous part of the human ear.
appendix auriculaenoun(anatomy) The appendix of the auricle of the heart.
porionnoun(anatomy) The point on the human skull located at the upper margin of each ear canal, and underlying the tragus.
earbonenoun(anatomy) Any bone in the ear.
timpanumnoun(anatomy) The eardrum.
alvearynounA beehive, or anything resembling a beehive.
ear hairnoun(anatomy, dermatology) The terminal hair arising from the follicular cartilage inside the external auditory meatus in humans.

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