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Definition of Auricles
1. auricle [n] - See also: auricle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auricles
Literary usage of Auricles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"It is more opaque on the left than on the right side of the heart, thicker in
the auricles than in the ventricles, and thickest in the left auricle. ..."
2. Works by William Harvey (1847)
"OF THE MOTION OP THE HEART AND ITS auricles, AS SEEN THE BODIES OF LIVING ANIMALS.
BESIDES the motions already spoken of, we have still to consider those ..."
3. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"We divide the heart into four chambers, —the two auricles and the two ventricles.
What we designate as a heart beat begins with the simultaneous contraction ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"At that moment the auricles are passing into a state of complete diastole, ...
When the distension of the auricles is complete (which happens before the ..."
5. Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology by William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sir Charles Lyell, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, Frank Faulkner, David Constable Robb, Harold Clarence Ernst, Joseph Lister, Stephen Paget, Robert Willis (1910)
"The heart, therefore, ceases to pulsate sooner than the auricles, so that the
auricles have been said to outlive it, the left ventricle ceasing to pulsate ..."
6. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1905)
"The Musculature of the auricles and Ventricles. —Embryologically the four-
chambered heart is developed from a simple tube and this origin is indicated in ..."
7. The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body by Matthew Baillie (1833)
"Valves between the auricles and the Ventricles ossified. THE valvular apparatus
between the auricles and Ventricles is liable to the formation of bony and ..."
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