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labrum

[ley-bruhm, lab-ruhm] / ˈleɪ brəm, ˈlæb rəm /


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With just one competition under her belt this season, she dislocated her shoulder and sustained a torn labrum in what she described as the "silliest fall" in training in Switzerland last month.

From BBC Feb. 12, 2026

She said her labrum injury is less serious than feared, though it will prevent her from training before the Games.

From BBC Jan. 13, 2026

And in the meantime, it should help Ohtani — who also is coming back from a torn labrum in his left shoulder — get back to normal at the plate.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 12, 2025

Though, at the time, the team only publicly described the diagnosis as a partially dislocated shoulder, the NL MVP winner had also torn his left labrum.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 3, 2025

Horn could not entirely make out the mandibles as described by Le Conte, and rather concluded that what Le Conte described is really one of the granules which occur behind the labrum.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

Thomas was already playing with partially torn labra in both shoulders.

From New York Times Sep. 25, 2020

He acknowledged the cold truths about torn labra: They can’t heal on their own, and most players who suffer similar ruptures end up on the operating table.

From New York Times Apr. 2, 2019

First, they suggest that the anomalocaridid’s frontal appendages are analogous to the mouthparts, or labra, of arthropods.

From Nature Jul. 15, 2014

But a Della Cruscan academician might at least have corrected by his dictionary the spelling of labra.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 by Various

There is in the Vatican a magnificent porphyry labrum found in one of the imperial baths; and Baccius, a great modern authority on baths, speaks of labra made of glass.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)




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