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What is a concha?

What is a concha? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any shell-shaped structure.
  2. (anatomy) The deepest indentation of the cartilage of the human ear, attaching to the mastoid bone.
  3. (architecture) An apse, or the plain semidome of an apse.
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From the roof, the olfactory epithelium extends down both sides of the nasal cavity to cover most of the superior concha laterally and 1 cm of nasal septum medially.
The skin of the cartilaginous canal is affected initially, with more severe disease affecting the concha, bony canal and tympanic membrane.
He took all of his unmarried children with him, and concha thought it her duty to go.
On the cranial surface of the pinna elevations correspond to the concha and to the fossae 792 of the helix and antihelix.
Each elevation, called a nasal concha or turbinate, hangs over an air passage.
They are inserted into the lower part of the cranial surface of the concha.

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