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What is a tragus?

What is a tragus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) The small piece of thick cartilage of the external ear that is immediately in front of the ear canal.
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They have a tragus, which can be folded back to seal the opening of the ear when the animal digs.
Absorption may also be facilitated by manipulating the tragus to help distribute the drops throughout the external auditory canal.
Patients with otitis externa experience pain on manipulation of the pinna or tragus, and their ear canal is edematous and filled with infectious debris.
Wattle, OT congenital cervical tragus, is a term coined by Clarke1 to describe an unusual skin appendage found on the neck analogous to growths on the dewlaps of birds.
Russian thistle, Salsola tragus, has become an icon of the American West since arriving in the 1870s as a flax seed contaminant.
A standard endaural incision is made passing through the incisura between the root of the helix and the tragus.

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