auricular

1. Of or relating to the sense of hearing or the organs of hearing.
2. Perceived by or spoken into the ear: an auricular confession.
3. Shaped like an ear or an earlobe; having earlike parts or extensions.
4. Of or relating to an auricle of the heart: auricular fibrillation.

[Middle English auriculer, spoken into the ear, from Late Latin auriculāris, from Latin auricula, ear. See auricle.]

adjective

Known about by very few: confidential, inside, private, secret. Informal hush-hush. See show/hide.

Said of the shape of an ornament of organic and dynamic forms that resemble the ear.

Pertaining to or emanating from the ear.

• a. cartilages — comprise the auricular, the main funnel-shaped cartilage, the annular, a C-shaped cartilage surrounding the external meatus, and the scutiform cartilage that lies on the surface of the temporal muscle.
• a. hematoma — bleeding of branches of the great auricular artery, usually caused by head shaking or trauma, result in hematoma formation between the skin on the inner side of the ear and auricular cartilage or in a cleavage within the cartilage. Common in dogs with otitis externa and foreign bodies of the ear canal, and in pigs with sarcoptic mange. Surgical drainage and fixation of tissues is the usual treatment.
• a. hillocks — small swellings on the embryonic visceral arches; the beginnings of the external ears.
• a. mange — infestation with ear mites. See otodectic mange.
• a. muscles
• a. plaque — hyperkeratotic, depigmented plaques of tissue on the inner aspect of the pinna of a horse's ears. They are verrucae plana or flat warts.
• a. points — in acupuncture, specific points on the ear, said to correspond with different parts of the body. Called also ear points.
• a. veins