(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.
Lip
Definition:
(n.) One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.
(n.) An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.
(n.) The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
(n.) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
(n.) The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.
(n.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
(v. t.) To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.
(v. t.) To utter; to speak.
(v. t.) To clip; to trim.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
(2) Excessive lip protrusion was eliminated, and arch leveled.
(3) The authors report their experience of the reconstruction by z-plasty in cases of shortness of the lip frenum.
(4) With the teeth in occlusion, lip separation was reduced.
(5) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(6) Although 95% of the patients are satisfied, 60% have some impairment of sensation in the lower lip.
(7) On the basis of these studies, four of the neonates required a tongue-lip adhesion to stabilize the airway.
(8) Single doses of lip-AMB resulted in 88 to 100% survival by day 42.
(9) We found that in the patient's view an adequate result requires establishment of a proper lip sphincter--either by restoring muscular tone, or by creating an anatomical framework to which can be added either a motor unit or stabilization to aid the opposite intact muscle.
(10) Three hundred sixteen female patients with cancer of the larynx, pharynx, and mouth were examined and the following cancer sites were compared with respect to alcohol and tobacco consumption: oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, epilarynx, lip, and mouth.
(11) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
(12) A rather unusual case of basal cell carcinoma of the labio-mental fold area is presented where it was possible to preserve the vermilion of the lower lip after wide excision.
(13) Lower lip perturbation duration was manipulated to yield two different load conditions.
(14) Transposition of prolabium not required in the definitive lip repair into the floor of the nose permits subsequent columellar construction.
(15) More and more patients are coming to cosmetic and dermatologic surgeons for augmentation of their lips.
(16) Warts were confined to the lips in 27 (56%) of 48 patients with meatal warts; in an additional 5 patients with meatal warts the warts arose from deep in the fossa navicularis and in 16 patients with meatal warts there were additional warts in the fossa navicularis invisible on clinical examination.
(17) The procedure consists of a Kirschner wire used as the means of traction on the remaining soft tissue of the lower lip, using the upper teeth or pyriform aperture bone as remote fixed points for tissue traction.
(18) Fifty per cent of the children with clefts of the palate and lip had deviated nasal septum producing nasal obstruction.
(19) An infant with a complete unilateral cleft of the lip and palate underwent maxillary expansion treatment using an oral orthopedic appliance.