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Auricle Auricular Auris
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ AURICLE    from
~ AURICUL~   prefix for AURICULA or EAR
             for HEARING see> EAR and see> ACOUSTIC
             note IT ALSO APPLIES TO THE HEART
~ AURICULA   id+ | EAR | from ARIS for
             id+ | BREAK SILENCE  EARTH etc |
             med>  PERTAINING TO EAR and
                   SENSE OF HEARING
~ AURICULAR  id+ | for EARS |
~ AURIS      med> lat  for EAR
                  also for HEART CHAMBERS
  SHAPED LIKE "LITTLE EARS" thus
  FLAB FLOP or FLABBY located above the
  FIRM MUSCULAR VENTRICLES or
  "LITTLE BELLY LIKE" cavities

          OIR          HEAR
          OIDO         EAR from
  gr      AIEIN        HEAR
  lat     AURIS        HEARING or
          AUDIBILES    from
          AUDIRE       TO HEAR
  eng     AURICLE      EAR
  lat     AURICULA     FLAP OF THE EAR
          AURICULA     LITTLE EAR or
          AULA         sp for CLASS ROOM
  gr      AULE         BOOTH for
                       STAND  HALL  COURT
  lat     ARABILIS     for EARABLE  in
  sp      ARABLE       PLOWABLE
  lat     AURIS LOBUS  med> EAR LOBULE
  old eng ERIEN        or
          EAR          to PLOUGH or PLOW
  indeur  AR           same
  sp      ARAR         same
  ukr     ORATY        same and
                       CRY thus
                       BREAK SILENCE as in
                       TO SPEAK
  eng     ORATORY      RHETORIC in   note
          ORAL         MOUTH thus
                       SPEAK WITH YOUR MOUTH
  Frisian AR           implies MEMBRANE LIKE
  lat     ACUS         ACUTE POINTED as
          ACNA         EAR OF A CEREAL as in
                       "EAR CORN" implying TO PEEL
         ANSA          EAR
         ANSULA        SAME
  sp     ASA           HANDLE for
                       GRASPING  sug> GRAB
  lat    ANSATUS       HAVING EARS
  eng    ACUSTIC       or  sug> ACUTE  sug> ACCUSE
  ply>                 WE PAY ATTENTION WHEN ACCUSED
         ACOUSTIC      pertaining to SOUND and HEARING
  eng    AUDIBLE       AURAL perception or AURICULAR
  lat    AUSCULTATOR   LISTENER
         AUSCULTO      TO MIND  TO LISTEN as in
  sp     ESCUCHA       for "PAY ATTENTION"
         ESCUCHAR      LISTEN
  lat    AUSCULTARE    LISTEN or " LEND AN EAR" or
         AUSCULATIO    HEARING or "GIVING EAR"
  med>   AUSCULTATION  LISTENING TO SOUNDS
  note SCOUT           to OBSERVE
  biol> LAGOS          implies DROOPY EAR as in
        LAGOMORPHA     HARE  RABBIT family
        MICROTUS       TINY EARS as in some RODENTS
        MYOSOTIS       FORGET ME NOT family
  see> AUSCULATATE for TO LISTEN
  see> EAR derived from see> OTIC
  see> HEAR leading to see> ACOUSTIC 
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