Antitragus

/æn.tɪˈtrædʒ.əs/ noun

A small, pointed cartilage projection on the inner ear that points inward opposite to the tragus.

From Greek anti- (opposite) + tragos (goat, from the resemblance of the tragus to a goat's beard). Named in anatomical Latin around the 1600s when detailed ear anatomy was being catalogued.

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