English

Prefix

auriculo-

1. Of or pertaining to the auricle.
   • 1836, Robert Bentley Todd (editor), The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, first edition, volume 1, “A–DEA”, page 330, column 2:

     The auriculo-ventricular orifice is an oblique slit[.]

   • 1881, St. George Jackson Mivart, The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals, first edition (John Murray), page 273

     The first of these, the auriculo-temporal nerve, passes backwards, under the external pterygoid muscle, and then upwards between the mandible and the external meatus, underneath the parotid gland.

Related terms

• aur-

References

• the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)