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adjective
Labial  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins.
2.
(Mus.) Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe.
3.
(Phonetics)
(a)
Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w.
(b)
Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as eu and u in French, and ö, ü in German.
4.
(Zool.) Of or pertaining to the labium; as, the labial palpi of insects. See Labium.






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"Labial" Quotes from Famous Books



... were cut transversely, every eighth of an inch, about three-quarters of the way across. Fig. 1 shows the size of tape and the manner of cutting. With an instrument (Fig. 2) he drew the foil in from the labial surface, using such portion of ...
— Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth • Henry L. Ambler

... RAM-UCR no. 381, a left M1, are sharp and the wear-facets resulting from occlusion with the lower dentition are small. The paraconule is a low, ill-defined cusp on the anterior margin of the crown; a metaconule is not present. A smooth stylar shelf is present labial to the metacone. The crown was supported by three roots. There are no ...
— Records of the Fossil Mammal Sinclairella, Family Apatemyidae, From the Chadronian and Orellan • William A. Clemens

... ask me whence this laughter, Whence this audible big-smiling, With its labial extension, With its maxillar distortion And its diaphragmic rhythmus Like the billowing of an ocean, Like the shaking of a carpet, I should answer, I should tell you: From the great deeps of the spirit, ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce

... the Turks (Cantemir, p. 34) and the Tata of the Greeks (Ducas, c. 35) are derived from the natural language of children; and it may be observed, that all such primitive words which denote their parents, are the simple repetition of one syllable, composed of a labial or a dental consonant and an open vowel, (Des Brosses, Mechanisme des Langues, tom. ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon

... stands, you perceive; the labial muscles, that swelled with Vehement evolution of yesterday Marseillaises, Articulations sublime of defiance and scorning, to-day col- Lapse and languidly mumble, while men and women and papers Scream and re-scream to ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various

... most cases, of the simplest caresses and kisses for which we often find corresponding acts in birds and other animals. The nerves of primitive men are too coarse for such a delicate sensation as labial contact, and an embrace would leave them cold. An African approximation to a kiss is described by Baker (Ismailia, 472). He had liberated a number of female slaves, and presently, he says, "I ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck



Words linked to "Labial" :   lip, superior labial artery, labial consonant, labial pipe, anterior labial veins, inferior labial artery, labial artery



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