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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In anatomy, the process of the external ear, opposite to the tragus, and behind the ear-passage. See cut under ear.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See ear.

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