Auricle vs Ventricle - What's the difference?
auricle | ventricle |
(anatomy) The outer ear or pinna.
(anatomy) An ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the heart.
(anatomy) An atrium, the smaller of the two types of chamber in the heart.
(botany) Any appendage in the shape of an earlobe.
(anatomy, zoology) Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:
# (anatomy) One of two lower chambers of the heart.
# (anatomy) One of four cavities in the brain.
# (archaic, anatomy, zoology) The stomach.
#* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 72:
# (archaic) The womb.
As nouns the difference between auricle and ventricle
is that auricle is (anatomy) the outer ear or pinna while ventricle is (anatomy|zoology) any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:.auricle
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(wikipedia auricle)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (outer ear) pinna, pavilionDerived terms
* auricledventricle
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(wikipedia ventricle) (en noun)- [On birds] "Where omitting the more general Properties, of having two Ventricles , and picking up stones to conveigh them into their second Ventricle, the Gizzern, (which provision and instinct is a supply for the want of teeth;) "