atrial auricle

1. 1.

   a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart

   Synonymsauricleauricula atrii

   Broaderpouch

   Part ofatrium cordis

Questions about atrial auricle

What does atrial auricle mean?

atrial auricle means "a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart".

What is another word for atrial auricle?

Close synonyms include auricle, auricula atrii. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atrial auricle a common word?

atrial auricle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.