Nervous and mental diseases . made : I. Abnormally implanted ears ; they project too far or lie tooclosely, are placed too high or too low, too far forward or too farbackward on the head. II. Excessively large ears : (1) absolutely too large; (2) rela-tively too large in small or microcephalic individuals. III. Ears which are too small. IV. Too marked conchoidal shape of the ear. The details of theear (anthelix and crura, etc.) are but slightly marked, while the helixoutlines the ear like the rim of a funnel. V. Ears which have a general ugly shape. The breadth of theupper part may exceed that


Nervous and mental diseases . made : I. Abnormally implanted ears ; they project too far or lie tooclosely, are placed too high or too low, too far forward or too farbackward on the head. II. Excessively large ears : (1) absolutely too large; (2) rela-tively too large in small or microcephalic individuals. III. Ears which are too small. IV. Too marked conchoidal shape of the ear. The details of theear (anthelix and crura, etc.) are but slightly marked, while the helixoutlines the ear like the rim of a funnel. V. Ears which have a general ugly shape. The breadth of theupper part may exceed that of the lower, and vice versa; excessivelength ; ears without lobules ; unusually short ears. GENERAL ETIOLOGY OF INSANITY. 715 VI. Ear not uniform in width; usually a long ear with oneor more constrictions in its breadth. VII. The Blainville ear; asymmetry of various kinds of thetwo ears. In most cases the asymmetry is due to an anomaly of theleft ear. Fossa ovalis Fossa cymbae —v—^—^ Fossa conchaIncisura intertragica. Fossa scaphoidea Fig. 288.—Normal ear. VIII. The ear without lobule ; there are usually other deformitiesof this ear besides the absence of lobule, such as too large a concha,prominence of the antlielix, etc. IX. The ear with adherent lobule ; the lobule is enlarged, ad-herent, and inclines downward toward the cheek.


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