Helix (ear)
The helix (from the Greek spiral, winding, screw) is the medical term for the bulge-like, thickened edge of the auricle . It is made up of cartilage covered by skin. On the side of the ear it runs relatively straight from bottom to top, in the upper part it is curved towards the skull. Quite often the helix has a small thickening of cartilage and skin in the upper lateral part, which is called Darwin's ear cusps or also Darwin tuberculous, Darwinian ear cusps or Darwin's cusps. The so-called helix piercing is carried out on the helix .
Ear nodules can form on the helix as part of a benign cartilage disease, chondrodermatitis .
Helix piercing
Chondrodermatitis - ear nodules on the helix
The muscles of the auricle
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Orbit. home.comcast.net, accessed February 24, 2012 .
- ↑ Helix piercing. (No longer available online.) Piercing-arten.de, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 24, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Clinical, histological and immunohistochemical studies on chondrodermatitis nodularis chronica helicis , dissertation by Kristine Mørch-Winter, Bonn 2008 (PDF)
