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outer ear
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the outer portion of the ear which includes the auricle and the ear canal and leads to the eardrum
Key facts
- Latin
- auris externa
- Mesh
- D004431
- Neurolex id
- birnlex_1705
- Ta98
- A15.3.01.001
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
37,973 papers- The development of the mammalian outer and middle ear.Journal of anatomy · 2016
- Cost-effective 3D scanning and printing technologies for outer ear reconstruction: current status.Head & face medicine · 2023
- The outer ear pathway during hearing by bone conduction.Hearing research · 2022
- Functional Pathway and Process Enrichment Analysis of Genes Associated With Morphological Abnormalities of the Outer Ear.The Journal of craniofacial surgery · 2023
- Congenital ear malformation (CEM).Acta oto-laryngologica · 2023
via PubMed
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Encyclopedic overview
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The outer ear, external ear, or auris externa is the external part of the ear, which consists of the auricle (also pinna) and the ear canal. It gathers sound energy and focuses it on the eardrum (tympanic membrane).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “outer ear” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.