(n.) The folds of integument at the opening of the vulva.
(n.) The organ of insects which covers the mouth beneath, and serves as an under lip. It consists of the second pair of maxillae, usually closely united in the middle line, but bearing a pair of palpi in most insects. It often consists of a thin anterior part (ligula or palpiger) and a firmer posterior plate (mentum).
(n.) Inner margin of the aperture of a shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lymphocyte karyotyping of an infant girl with the clinical features of microphthalmia, iridoschisis, goiter, hip joint dysplasia, labium synechia and craniotabes revealed an Xp deletion.
(2) An account of an unusual occurrence during a grand mal epileptic fit occurring during a sexual act (labium pudendi bite = "willful bodily harm").
(3) More information on penetration depth is needed, and it might possibly be estimated from the length of the labium when it remains outside the skin and contracts.
(4) The pediculate mucous flaps obtained by cleavage of the labium minus are linked with the vascularized tubal flaps from the lumbo-ovarian ligament.
(5) There they seem able to distinguish between suitable and unsuitable external conditions and accordingly they will either leave the proboscis completely or retract into the labium.
(6) The major nerve branches serving the mandibles, maxillae, and labium are established by peripheral pioneer neurons, which project their axons into the central nervous system via a set of guidepost cells.
(7) However, they were not evenly distributed; the most notable accumulation of LH-RH reactive dots were located in the region extending from the dorsal part of the tuberoinfundibular sulcus to the lateral part of external layer of the superior infundibular labium at the infundibular radix.
(8) The Martius procedure of grafting a pedicle from the labium majus was used when there was a large fistula or extensive scarring.
(9) The results showed distinct patterns of peroxidase-labeled sensory nerve endings at three regions of the incisive papilla: a) dome region (ventral), where labeled nerve endings formed three parallel channels in association with three surface ridges; b) chemosensory corpuscle enriched region (medial to incisive canal), where 82% of the 30-40 chemosensory corpuscles were labeled; and c) lateral labium (lateral to incisive canal), where labeled nerve endings formed a circumscribed network guarding the orifice of incisive canal.
(10) In addition, the rate at which infective larvae migrate into the labium is shown to be density dependent.
(11) The round ligament ended just outside the external ring in all females, with neither attachment, nor extension, to the caudal labium.
(12) Following experimental infliction of stab wounds, the blood circulation in mandibular gingiva attached to the labium was studied in 31 subjects with fluorescence angiography.
(13) The histology of the testicles in the labium majus, hormone examinations and the results of choriogonin and testosterone loading are presented.
(14) Autogenous ribitol teichoic acid was found to block the attachment of S. aureus to labium majus and labium minus cells by 76% and 81% respectively, and to vaginal cells by 66%.
(15) Joined to the pila omasi was a thick muscle bundle which extended from the labium sinistrum (left lip) of the sulcus reticuli and ran obliquely along the floor of the sulcus omasi.
(16) We have studied labium majus skin fibroblast strains from six unrelated, previously unreported, patients with complete androgen insensitivity (CAI).
(17) In four patients (from tow families with several affected members) with the typical phenotype of testicular feminization, a severe deficit of specific androgen-binding activity was detected in cultured fibroblasts from labium majus skin.
(18) SLS at concentrations of 0.1%, 0.5% and 1.0% was applied to the forearm and labium majus for 24 hours.
(19) The sites of involvement were the mons pubis (one patient), perineal body (one), labium majus (three), labium minus (three), and vagina (seven).
(20) The first patient presented for medical attention after haemorrhaging from a large pedunculated lesion arising from the left labium minus and majus.