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Definition of Outer ear

1. Noun. The part of the ear visible externally.

Definition of Outer ear

1. Noun. (anatomy) The outer portion of the ear which includes the auricle and the ear canal and leads to the eardrum. ¹

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Literary usage of Outer ear

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In crocodiles the outer ear lies in a recess, dorsally overhung by the ... In lizards the outer ear is quite unprotected, and when the meatus is very short ..."

2. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1897)
"... outer ear.—Rudimentary Muscles of the Ear-shell. " Systematic Physiology is based especially upon the history of development, and unless this is more ..."

3. A Manual of Physiology by Gerald Francis Yeo (1890)
"We know this, because the outer ear may be quite removed without materially affecting the power of hearing. The sound reflected from the pinna may be ..."

4. The Evolution of Man; a Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haecker (1886)
"Rudimentary outer ear.—Rudimentary Muscles of the Ear-shell. " Systematic Physiology is based especially upon the history of development, and unless this is ..."

5. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1879)
"Rudimentary outer ear.—Rudimentary Muscles of the Ear-shell. " Systematic Physiology is based especially upon the history of development, and unless this is ..."

6. The Ear and its diseases by Albert Alexander Gray (1910)
"The organ of hearing may be divided into three parts: the outer ear, ... THE OUTER EAR. The outer ear consists of the auricle and the external meatus (Fig. ..."

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