[ANTI- 2.] A protuberance of the outer ear, the thicker part of the antihelix, opposite to the tragus.
1842. E. Wilson, Anat. Vade M., 461. A tubercle opposite to this is the antitragus.
1877. Burnett, Ear, 29. In the water-shrew, an aquatic mammal, the anti-tragus serves as an operculum to the auricle.