Antitragicus

/ˌæn.tɪˈtrædʒ.ɪ.kəs/ noun

A small muscle in the ear that connects the antitragus (small cartilage projection) to surrounding structures.

From antitragus (opposite the tragus) + -icus (Latin nominative suffix). From Greek anti- (opposite) + tragos (goat, used to mean the tragus because of its shape). Named in anatomical Latin in the 1600s-1700s.

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