Anatomy
The diagram shows the shape and location of most these components:
- Anthelix (antihelix) forms a 'Y' shape where the upper parts are:
- Superior crux (to the left of the fossa triangularis in the diagram)
- Inferior crux (to the right of the fossa triangularis in the diagram)
- Antitragus is below the tragus
- Aperture is the entrance to the ear canal
- Auricular sulcus is the depression behind the ear next to the head
- Concha is the hollow next to the ear canal
- Conchal angle is the angle that the back of the concha makes with the side of the head
- Crus of the helix is just above the tragus
- Cymba conchae is the narrowest end of the concha
- External auditory meatus is the ear canal
- Fossa triangularis is the depression in the fork of the antihelix
- Helix is the folded over outside edge of the ear
- Incisura anterior auris, or intertragic incisure, or intertragal notch, is the space between the tragus and antitragus
- Lobe (lobule) - attached or free according to a classic single-gene dominance relationship
- Scapha
- Tragus
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