auricular
adjective
of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
preauricular
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a word derived from
auricular.
Example Sentences
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As a rule, supernumerary auricles are preauricular appendages.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
The rarest of the lateral class is the preauricular fissure, which has been observed by Fevrier, Le Dentu, Marchand, Peyrot, and Routier.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
There were median fissures of the upper lip, preauricular appendages, oral deformity, and absence of the olfactory proboscis The fetus was therefore a cyclops arrhynchus, or cyclocephalus.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Van Duyse mentions congenital macrostoma with preauricular tumors and a dermoid of the eye.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Reverdin describes a man having a supernumerary nipple on the right side of his chest, of whose five children three had preauricular appendages.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
