Cauda helicis
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Cauda helicis | |
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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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