The visible part of the ear that resides outside of the head.
Division of a usually pinnately divided leaf.
1Along the Mediterranean were several places where they manufactured pinna thread.
2From the pinna, silk of a peculiar quality is obtained.
3The conducting of the sound has scarcely been affected by the loss of the pinna.
4The right pinna was entire, and the upper half of the left pinna had disappeared.
5A drop of moisture was smeared on the pinna.
6The external ear is called auricle or pinna.
7If by accident the outer portion of the pinna is removed, there is no impairment of the hearing.
8After this failure another set of men tried to make silk by using the filament of the pinna.
9But the habitual product of this pinna is small, dull, mud-tinted or brown, and of no value whatever.
10In an ovalbumin model, pinna edema was significantly suppressed in CB2-KO mice in comparison with that in WT mice.
11As long as it remained within the pinna and it could not be voluntarily rejected, its size would inevitably increase.
12This pinna, therefore circumnutated.
13Echinus, nautilus, pinna, cancer.
14A pair of gloves from pinna silk would cost $1.50, and stockings about $3.
15The leaflets move towards the apex of the pinna and become imbricated, and the pinnae then look like bits of dangling string.
16With Neptunia oleracea the leaflets on the opposite sides of the same pinna come into contact at night and are directed forwards.