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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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The centerpiece of the display is an exquisite turquoise and silver concha belt.
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.
The points are found, explains Sara, by imagining a baby in an inverted foetal position, with the earlobe representing the head, the concha the internal organs and so on.
On the cranial surface of the pinna elevations correspond to the concha and to the fossae 792 of the helix and antihelix.
He took all of his unmarried children with him, and concha thought it her duty to go.

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