labium
Americannoun
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a lip or liplike part.
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Anatomy.
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a lip or lip-shaped structure or part.
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any of the folds of skin bordering the vulva.
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Botany. the lower lip of a bilabiate corolla.
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Entomology. the posterior, unpaired member of the mouthparts of an insect, formed by the united second maxillae.
noun
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a lip or liplike structure
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any one of the four lip-shaped folds of the female vulva See labia majora labia minora
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the fused pair of appendages forming the lower lip of insects
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the lower lip of the corolla of labiate flowers
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Origin of labium
1590–1600; < Latin: lip, akin to lambere to lick, lap 3. See labrum 1, lip
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The labium or second maxillæ, so large in the moth, serves simply as a spinneret in the caterpillar.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
The labium in Japyx is four-lobed and bears a small two-jointed palpus.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
On comparing these parts with those of the louse, it will be seen how much alike they are with the exception of the labium, a very variable organ in the Hemiptera.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
The round ligament attaches to the uterus near the uterine tubes, and extends to the labia majora.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The growths, called vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia, or VIN, form on the external parts of the genital area, or vulva, including the labia and clitoris.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2011
This is also true of the occasional adhesion of the labia minora in little girls, like the similar adhesion of the foreskin in boys.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles
Great tension of the lids demands free incisions in the long diameter of either, and the same surgical procedures are often demanded in erysipelas of the scrotum or of the labia in the female.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
It is difficult to speak very decisively as to the function of the labia minora.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Ellis, Havelock
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