Cauda helicis

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Cauda helicis
Cranial surface of cartilage of right auricula. (Cauda helicis labeled at bottom right.)
Gray's subject #229 1034
Dorlands/Elsevier c_15/12219826

In the lower part of the helix the cartilage is prolonged downward as a tail-like process, the cauda helicis; this is separated from the antihelix by a fissure, the fissura antitragohelicina.

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