Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the ear; auricular; auditory.

  An ear medicine.

  Relating to the ear.

  Pertaining to the ear; see Aural.

  The region of the auditory capsule.

  Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves.

  Belonging to the ear.

“ And I will cheerfully expose myself to any impertinent remark which it might suggest, to assure my audience that I never heard or saw one authentic Homoeopathic name of any country in Europe, which I had ever heard mentioned before as connected with medical science by a single word or deed sufficient to make it in any degree familiar to my ears, unless Arnold of Heidelberg is the anatomist who discovered a little nervous centre, called the otic ganglion. ” – The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

“ The anterior rami terminate at about the mid- level of the orbit, and the medial rami articulate firmly with the anterolateral corner of the otic capsule. ” – A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by Linda Trueb William E. Duellman