Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated about the outer ear; auricular: as, the parotic region; the parotic cartilage of some reptiles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) On the side of the auditory capsule; near the external ear.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) the space around the ears.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective anatomy On the side of the auditory capsule; near the external ear.

Etymologies

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See parotid.

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