Restorative Arts Ear (Pinna)

Restorative Arts Ear (Pinna) / Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science / Exam date: ? {EXAM WILL INCLUDE ALL OTHER FLASHCARDS}

Triangular fossa

Depression between the crura

Second deepest depression of the ear

Triangular fossa

Crus

The origin of the helix that is flattened and ends at the concha

Crus

Concha

Concave shell of the ear, the deepest depression of the ear located posterior and superior to the ear passage

Concha

Tragus

An elevation protecting the ear passage

Arises from the posterior margin of the lateral cheek

Tragus

Intertragic notch

A notch or opening between the tragus and antitragus of the ear

Intertragic notch

Helix

The outer rim of the ear, has a general shape of a question mark

Helix

Crura

The superior and anterior bifurcating branches of the antihelix

Crura

Scapha

The fossa between the inner and outer rims of the ear

Shallowest depression of the ear

Scapha

Antihelix

The inner rim of the ear

Starts at the superior border of the lobe and continues upward until it ends by becoming the crura

It forms the superior and posterior walls of the concha

Antihelix

Antitragus

A small eminence obliquely opposite the tragus

Located on the superior border of the lobe of the ear

Antitragus

Lobe

Inferior fatty ⅓ of the ear

Most inferior part of the ear

Attaches to the cheek

Lobe