LABIUM (labia)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: labia   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does labium mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LABIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

external body part (any body part visible externally)

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

labia majora (the two outer folds of the vulva)

labia minora (the two inner folds of the vulva)

Holonyms ("labium" is a part of...):

vulva (external parts of the female genitalia)

 Context examples 

A malignant neoplasm that affects the labia majora.

(Malignant Labia Majora Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A malignant neoplasm that affects the labia minora.

(Malignant Labia Minora Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the two longitudinal folds of skin located between the labia majora.

(Labium Minus, NCI Thesaurus)

A carcinoma that arises from the labia minora.

(Labia Minora Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A carcinoma that arises from the labia majora.

(Labia Majora Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A cutaneous leiomyoma arising from the dartos muscle of the scrotum or labia majora.

(Dartoic Leiomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)