Ponticulus

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Ponteculus
Cranial surface of cartilage of right auricula. (Ponticulus visible at center right.)
Latin p. auriculae
Gray's subject #229 1034
Dorlands/Elsevier p_29/12659242

The eminentia conchae is crossed by a vertical ridge, the ponticulus, which gives attachment to the Auricularis posterior muscle.

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Holt J (2005). "The ponticulus: an anatomic study.". Otol Neurotol 26 (6): 1122–4. doi:10.1097/01.mao.0000194887.59270.7d. PMID 16272927. 

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