Crossword-Solution: TRAGUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tragus | n. | The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear. See Illust. under Ear. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “TRAGUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ear prominence | 1 answer |
| External ear part | 1 answer |
| Small fold next to the opening of the ear canal (not the Roman god of sad plays) | 1 answer |
| Ear projection | 3 answers |
| part Ear | 4 answers |
| Part of the ear | 8 answers |
| ear part | 32 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZAMEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TRAGUS (5)
She was delivered of a normal living child, with the exception that the helix of the left ear was pushed anteriorly, and had, in its middle, a deep incision, which also traversed the antihelix and the tragus, and continued over the cheek toward the nose, where it terminated.
Warner, in a report of the examination of 50,000 children, quoted by Ballantyne, describes 33 with supernumerary auricles, represented by sessile or pedunculated outgrowths in front of the tragus.
The whole external shell may be considered a rudiment, together with the various folds and prominences (helix and anti-helix, tragus and anti-tragus, etc.) which in the lower animals strengthen and support the ear when erect, without adding much to its weight.
HEAD: LENGTH, from glabella to most prominent point of occiput; BREADTH, maximum at right angles to above; BI-AURIC BREADTH, from base of the tragus, pressing firmly; CIRCUMFERENCE, greatest circumference immediately above the glabella; AURICULAR VERTICAL ARC, from base of tragus over the vertex; AURICULAR RADII taken with a Cunningham's radiometer from the ear-hole.
Back uniform, brownish black, scarcely paler beneath; cheeks nearly black; underside of wings, and interfemoral membrane with lines of hairs; heel bone elongated, slender; ears moderate rounded; tragus oblong blunt; fore-arm bone, 1 10-12; shin bone, 9-12 of an inch.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1981–2000).