Letter A

Auricle

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<B>1.</B> The principal projecting part of the ear.

Also called the pinna.<BR><B>2.</B> Something ear shaped such as the upper chambers of the heart.

Also called the atria.<BR>Auricle is not to be confounded with oracle.

Neither the pinna nor the atria possess oracular powers

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