Figure 2: Ear pinna regeneration is not dependent on hole ... Tokyo, Japan) using a charge-coupled device camera (Olympus). To obtain representative images across several fields, a digital ...

Basal-cell carcinomas predominated on the posterior surface of the ear; elsewhere, epidermoid carcinomas were more common. Figure 1 Four Sites of Origin of Carcinomas of the Pinna. The more ...

It turns out these pieces—also called pinnae or auricula—act like funnels: They collect, amplify and direct sound waves to the ear canal. Pinnae are not randomly created. Take the human pinna ...

Perichondritis is an infection that occurs in the tissue of the cartilage located in your outer ear, which is called the auricle or pinna. The infection itself is sometimes referred to as ...

Our hair cells are in our internal ear, the part that does the actual hearing that sits behind a thin membrane or eardrum. The outside part, called the pinna, works like a satellite dish to ...

Can the victims still hear and smell? Yes, but with more difficulty. The outer part of your ear, known as the pinna, funnels sound into your ear canal, like a megaphone in reverse. If someone cut ...

Those external folds of cartilage and skin, called the pinna, have important resonant properties that modify high-frequency sound waves entering the ear before funneling them to the middle ear.