(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.
Labrum
Definition:
(n.) A lip or edge, as of a basin.
(n.) An organ in insects and crustaceans covering the upper part of the mouth, and serving as an upper lip. See Illust. of Hymenoptera.
(n.) The external margin of the aperture of a shell. See Univalve.
Example Sentences:
(1) They stress that beside the demonstration of rotator cuff injuries the examination of the surrounding muscles and the labrum glenoidale should not be forgotten either.
(2) Damage to the anterior glenoidal labrum was seen in all the younger patients and in 75% of the older ones.
(3) The capsule is reattached to the boney rim of the anterioinferior glenoid deep to and lateral to the torn cartilagenous labrum, thus excluding the labrum from the joint anteriorly.
(4) Arthroscopic operative procedures include the inspection of a torn glenoid labrum and certain lesions of the biceps tendon, viewing a torn rotator cuff, locating loose bodies in the shoulder, surgery for recurrent dislocations, and division of the coracoacromial ligament.
(5) On anatomic specimens in which the classic Putti-Platt technique was used, lateral rotation could not reach neutral without disruption of the lateral stump from the labrum.
(6) Configuration of the joint recesses and the glenoid labrum are also evaluated.
(7) MR imaging was less effective in the prediction of tears of the superior labrum, with a sensitivity of 75%, a specificity of 99%, and an accuracy of 95%.
(8) They also recall the usefulness or the arthroscan in the diagnosis of lesions of the labrum glenoidale.
(9) Exploration of the hip for recurrence revealed disruption of the posterosuperior acetabular labrum with formation of a pouch between the posterior acetabular wall and the short rotator muscles.
(10) Abnormalities shown on CT images included glenoid labrum attenuation and tears, glenoid fractures, loose joint bodies, intracapsular staples, intra-articular screws, adhesive capsulitis, rotator cuff tears, peritendinitis calcarea, biceps tendon tears, and capsular abnormalities.
(11) All but one of the tears were located on the posterosuperior portion of the labrum, and, in the acute cases, vascular dilatation around the tear was observed.
(12) These included total or partial detachment of superior segments of the labrum, and anterior labral tears at the midglenoid level.
(13) In 35 of these patients a lesion of the capsule and labrum was demonstrated, indicating glenohumeral instability; in three patients this was shown primarily by CT arthrography.
(14) There has been a tendency in the past to overestimate the role of the glenoid labrum in stability of the shoulder joint.
(15) Seven shoulders were examined: a total of five in three healthy asymptomatic volunteers, one in a symptomatic patient not suspected of having a lesion of the glenoid labrum, and one in a patient with recurrent shoulder dislocation and surgical proof of an extensive tear of the labrum.
(16) The arteries supplying the periphery of the glenoid labrum come from the suprascapular, circumflex scapular, and posterior circumflex humeral arteries.
(17) In these cases arthrography revealed that closed reduction was impossible due to narrowing of the joint capsule (hour-glass shape) and the interposition of a capsular fold including the acetabular labrum.
(18) MR imaging examinations of two patients with type II lesions showed globular high signal interposed between the superior part of the glenoid labrum and the superior portion of the glenoid fossa.
(19) Arthroscopic repair of the rotator cuff or stapling of the labrum are more questionable regarding successes, complications, and recurrence.
(20) It appears that the labrum of Phlebotomus argentipes, the vector of kala-azar in eastern India, is only just long enough for obtaining a blood meal in normal human skin.