earlobe

UK/ɪəɹ ləʊb/US/ɪəɹ ləʊb/

nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,686 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: earlobes

The earlobe is the soft hanging part at the bottom of your ear. Pierce the earlobe, a fleshy earlobe, tug his earlobe.

It is the only part of the ear with no cartilage, which is why it is where piercings go and why it heals well. Whether it hangs free or is attached is often taught as a simple inherited trait, and the real inheritance is more complicated than that.

Definitions of earlobe

1nounearlobeThe soft hanging part at the bottom of the ear.B1+
“She wore a small diamond in each earlobe.”

earlobe is a body part.

Practised in Body & Health

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earlobe in the wild

Earrings are often worn through earlobe piercings or another external part of the ear, or by some other means, such as stickers or clip-ons.
Earring
Locations for piercings other than the earlobe include the rook, tragus, and across the helix (see image in the infobox).
Earring
Since the earlobe does not contain cartilage it has a large blood supply and may help to warm the ears.
Earlobe
However, earlobes are not generally considered to have any major biological function.
Earlobe
Frank's sign is a diagonal crease in the earlobe extending from the tragus across the lobule to the rear edge of the auricle.
Frank's sign

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