auriculo-
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Formed from auricular + -o-; compare aur-.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôrĭʹkyo͝olō, IPA(key): /ɔːˈɹɪk.jʊl.əʊ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɔˈɹɪk.jəl.oʊ/
Prefix[edit]
auriculo-
- (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the auricle of the heart.
- 1836, Robert Bentley Todd, editor, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology[1], 1st edition, volumes 1: A–DEA, page 330, column 2:
- The auriculo-ventricular orifice is an oblique slit[.]
- (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the external ear; aural, auricular.
- 1881, St. George Jackson Mivart, “IX. The Cat's Nervous System and Organs of Sense”, in The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals[2], 1st edition, John Murray, page 273:
- The first of these, the auriculo-temporal nerve, passes backwards, under the external pterygoid muscle, and then upwards between the mandible and the external meatus, underneath the parotid gland.
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References[edit]
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “auriculo-”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- “auriculo-”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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Prefix[edit]
auriculo-