What's the difference between labia and lamia?

Labia


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) See Labium.
  • (pl. ) of Labium

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The labia minora as a pedicle graft avoids the problems encountered by conventional methods.
  • (2) The findings corroborated again the rare occurrence of meissner's endings in the labia minora in woman.
  • (3) FGM is a horrendous practice; the most severe form involves cutting off a girl's clitoris and labia and suturing the remaining tissue together, leaving a small hole for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.
  • (4) The oedema of the Scrotum, or the swelling of the Labia majora, could be the first sign of an intraabdominal inflammation.
  • (5) If you have a type 3 FGM then the clitoris and labia are sliced off.
  • (6) In labia majora skin, irritant dermatitis developed in 50% of the women as determined by visual scoring; however, because of the pigmentation, visual scoring readings were less reliable in labia majora skin.
  • (7) The majority of patients with pseudo-condyloma were symptomless but with harbor roe-like warty papulae distributed symmetrically on both labia minora.
  • (8) The flaps are raised bilaterally in the groin crease just lateral to the labia majora and then are transposed toward the midline and sutured together to form a skin-lined cul-de-sac which opens at the introitus.
  • (9) The sensory component of the iloinguinal nerve normally courses through the inguinal canal and supplies the upper thigh, pubis, inguinal crease, and the anterior and lateral aspect of the scrotum or labia majora.
  • (10) The next category contains entities that have an abnormal appearance: ambiguous genitalia, periurethral cysts of the newborn, hymenal variants, and agglutination of the labia and vulva.
  • (11) In each case the diagnosis was made because of characteristic pain localized to the medial groin, mons, labia majora, and inner thigh.
  • (12) Then, they review the different extensive procedures used to ensure this result: small bowel graft, omentopexy to reinforce the suture lines, fibroadipose tissue from the labia majora (Martius' operation).
  • (13) When Norrköpings Tidningar reported that every single girl in a school class of 30 had turned out to be circumcised – with 28 of them having their clitorises and labia cut away and their vaginas sewn almost shut – it was picked up by the media across the world, including by UK broadsheets.
  • (14) Fourteen women (13.7%) had S. aureus in one or more samples: 10.7% labia, 3.9% introitus and 3.9% vaginal.
  • (15) Four had an ominous black spot on the scrotum or posterior labia.
  • (16) The phallic skin was used to create the labia minora and the anterior vaginal wall.
  • (17) The microbial flora of the labia majora is characterized by a high density of microorganisms, as is typical for occluded areas of the body, by the presence of organisms common for intertriginous skin such as gram-negative rods, and by the carriage of organisms unique for the vulva and probably related to urethral and vaginal flora such as the nonpathogenic neisseria, lactobacilli, and Gardnerella vaginalis.
  • (18) A personal case was recently studied by the authors in some detail: A 51-year-old individual reared as a female with primary amenorrhea, short stature, subnormal intelligence, male type habitus, hirsutism, moderate breast development, ambiguous external genitalia with a 5 x 2 cm phallus, labia majora with scrotal type skin, and a urogenital sinus.
  • (19) I find myself wondering how far I should go to say that FGM is the slicing off on a conscious young girl with no anaesthetic of her clitoris and labia... “This is a quibble about a couple of stitches and it is a complete distraction.” Mr Justice Sweeney, in summing up to the jury on Wednesday, said everyone accepted Dharmasena had saved the life of the woman’s baby in an emergency delivery on 24 November, 2012.
  • (20) Clinically, multiple papules or solitary papules or plaques were situated on the labia majora or adjacent skin.

Lamia


Definition:

  • (n.) A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lamia Shakkour reacted angrily to reports she was stepping down in protest at attacks on civilians by President Bashar al-Assad's forces, saying the announcement was "misinformation" and "identity theft".
  • (2) There’s no disrespect to gays.” Meanwhile: best crackdown Greece: PAS Lamia’s Sierra Leone player John Kamara – suspended by his club on health grounds after his trip to Ebola-free Cameroon – facing sanctions for wearing a protest T-shirt reading: “We are West Africans, We are not a virus.” The FA charged him for breaching its anti-racism code, and plans to rule this week.
  • (3) It is important to be fair to both parties and the heritage itself.” During this year's meeting Syria’s ambassador to Unesco, Lamia Chakkour, acknowledged damage done to Aleppo, but argued against placing all six sites on the danger list.
  • (4) In the Lamia Plain, Greece, 12 years after the cessation of DDT spraying, Anopheles sacharovi is still present in very high densities and appears to have the same biting habits and host preferences as previously.
  • (5) The subfornical organ, the organon vasculosum lamia terminalis, the subcommissural organ, the area postrema all contained significant quantities of both releasing factors.

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