external ear

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001691

Part of the ear external to the tympanum (eardrum). It typically consists of a tube (the external auditory meatus) that directs sound waves on to the tympanum, and may also include the external pinna, which extends beyond the skull[GO]. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0042473 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_ear ]

Synonyms: outer ear, auricular region of head

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EV:0100354
MIAA:0000147
EHDAA:3786
GAID:104
EMAPA:16991
Wikipedia:External_ear
NCIT:C12292
MAT:0000147
SCTID:420893000
UMLS:C1269548 (BIRNLEX:1705)
FMA:52781
VHOG:0000311
EFO:0004221
AAO:0011037
UMLS:C0013453 (ncithesaurus:External_Ear)
EHDAA2:0000462
MA:0000258
BTO:0002100
XAO:0000190
UMLS:C0013453 (BIRNLEX:1705)
MESH:D004431
BIRNLEX:1705

Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim

UBPROP 0000001

The external part of the organ, which consists of an outer portion (external auditory meatus) which leads to the tympanum. [Dorian_AF, Elsevier's_encyclopaedic_dictionary_of_medicine, Part_B:_Anatomy_(1988)_Amsterdam_etc.:_Elsevier][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000003

Some species, like Amolops tormotus (Feng et al. 2006), have a cavity in front of the tympanic membrane which is considered to be an ear canal and thus an outer ear. (...) The ancestral lineage of amphibians separated from the mammalian lineage, approximately 350 million years ago, in the paleozoic era. Many of the important developments in the auditory systems emerged after the ancestral paths separated (Manley and Clack 2003). This implies that shared features, like the tympanic middle ear, developed independently in different vertebrate lineages.[uncertain][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000012

in XAO this includes and is only the tympanum

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Gray907.png

has related synonym

auris externa

has broad synonym

auricular region

has obo namespace

uberon

UBERON:0001691

never in taxon