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periauricular

periauricular adjective: around the ear.

Adjective

periauricular (not comparable)

  1. Around the ear.
    • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated residual periauricular subcutaneous ill-defined lesions extending radially from the stylomastoid foramen and subsequent abnormal enhanced lesions in the intratemporal facial nerve from the stylomastoid foramen to the internal auditory canal […]2015 August 9, Mitsuhiko Nakahira, Naoko Saito, Masashi Sugasawa, “Extratemporal Malignant Nerve Sheath Tumor of Facial Nerve with Coexistent Intratemporal Neurofibroma Mimicking Malignant...

Origin of periauricular

From peri- + auricular.

Words that rhyme with periauricular

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Questions about periauricular

What does periauricular mean?
Periauricular means around the ear.
What part of speech is periauricular?
Periauricular is an adjective.

Words near periauricular in the dictionary

  1. periastron
  2. periastrons
  3. periatrial
  4. periauger
  5. periaugers
  6. periauricular
  7. periaxial
  8. periaxially
  9. periaxin
  10. periaxonal
  11. periaxonemal

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