1. Prominent ears: a European perspective
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J Hamish and E Laing
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,History ,Perspective (graphical) ,General Engineering ,Vernacular ,General Medicine ,Audiology ,Prominent ears ,Aesthetics ,otorhinolaryngologic diseases ,medicine ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,sense organs ,China ,Otoplasty ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
Otoplasty is popular in the United Kingdom to relieve the teasing that prominent ears provoke. “Bat ears,” “wing nut,” and “Dumbo” are common in the English vernacular. In China, physiognomists consider that prominent ears indicate the need “to draw on inner reserves of strength and ability,”1 and Hindus find them desirable because of …
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- 1995
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