It is also sometimes called the auricle, although in the technical sense, the auricle is a separate part of the main atrium known as the atrial appendages.
The right side of the auricle stretches backward, and receives a similar trunk-vein from the skin of this side almost at the posterior extremity of the pericardium.
Shaped tissues such as an auricle or different forms of cartilage can be generated with individual scaffolds in a special tissue engineering container.
