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Labium

noun

(pl. L. labia, E. labiums)

A liplike structure that bounds a bodily orifice (especially any of the four labiate folds of a woman's vulva).

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"Labium" Quotes from Famous Books

... of their buccal organs, especially the formation of the labium, "which retains, either perfectly or approximately, the original form of a second ...

— Facts and Arguments for Darwin • Fritz Muller

... a more genial heaven? Is not the hand a spreading palm leaf with its lobes and veins? The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, umbilicaria, on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop. The lip—labium, from labor (?)—laps or lapses from the sides of the cavernous mouth. The nose is a manifest congealed drop or stalactite. The chin is a still larger drop, the confluent dripping of the face. The cheeks are a slide from the brows into ...

— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau

Words linked to "Labium" : vulva, labia majora, external body part, labia minora