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They did not count the rest of the heart -- what we now speak of as the 'auricles' -- as any part of the heart at all; but when they spoke of the heart they meant the left and the right ventricles; and they described those great vessels, which we now call the 'pulmonary veins' and the 'vena cava', as opening directly into the heart itself.

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

It then perceives beforehand none of those things which occur in the body, but has received its name vaguely and without any proper reason, like the parts about the heart, which are called auricles, but which contribute nothing towards hearing.

On The Sacred Disease 2007

And, because the blood which thus enters into the heart passes through these two pouches called auricles, it thence happens that their motion is the contrary of that of the heart, and that when it expands they contract.

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences 2002

The two upper chambers are called auricles from their supposed resemblance to the ear.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

And, because the blood which thus enters into the heart passes through these two pouches called auricles, it thence happens that their motion is the contrary of that of the heart, and that when it expands they contract.

Part V 1909

Thus there are four cardiac cavities -- the superior, or upper, ones called the auricles; the inferior, or lower, ones the ventricles.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

At the basis of the heart on each side are situated two cavities, called auricles, to receive the blood; and these contracting, force the blood into the ventricles, which are two cavities in the heart, separated from each other by a strong muscular partition.

Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784

And, because the blood which thus enters into the heart passes through these two pouches called auricles, it thence happens that their motion is the contrary of that of the heart, and that when it expands they contract.

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences Ren�� Descartes 1623

These chambers are called "auricles" and "ventricles," and there are two of each -- there being an auricle and a ventricle on the right side and also on the left.

The Common Frog 1874

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Freshman Dem: Passing health care reform worth losing my seat 2009