LABIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does labial mean? 

• LABIAL (noun)
  The noun LABIAL has 1 sense:

1. a consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips

  Familiarity information: LABIAL used as a noun is very rare.

• LABIAL (adjective)
  The adjective LABIAL has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to the lips of the mouth

2. relating to or near the female labium

  Familiarity information: LABIAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LABIAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

labial; labial consonant

Hypernyms ("labial" is a kind of...):

consonant (a speech sound that is not a vowel)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "labial"):

bilabial (a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/)

labial stop (a stop consonant that is produced with the lips)

Derivation:

labial (of or relating to the lips of the mouth)

• LABIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the lips of the mouth

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

labial stops

Pertainym:

lip (either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking)

Derivation:

labial (a consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or near the female labium

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

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

 Context examples 

Excision of the apical portion of a tooth root through an opening made in the overlying labial, buccal, lingual, or palatal alveolar bone.

(Apicoectomy, NCI Thesaurus)

It typically begins as a small vesicle or ulcer on the gingiva that rapidly becomes necrotic and spreads to produce extensive destruction of the buccal and labial mucosa and tissues of the face, which may result in severe disfigurement and even death.

(Gangrenous Stomatitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)