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labrum

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


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The hard-throwing right-hander underwent labrum surgery shortly after the 2024 World Series, and hasn’t pitched in a game since.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2026

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

Graterol, 27, missed the 2025 season after undergoing surgery on the labrum in his right shoulder in November 2024.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 7, 2026

The inner fold of the labrum forming the supra-œsophageal cavity, is thickened, and shows a trace of a central line of junction, as in Sessile Cirripedes.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

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

Verily, a speech worthy of the orator and of those who sent him, similes habent labra lactucas.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew

Many Latin neuter plurals were adopted into French as feminine singulars, e.g., cornua, corne, horn; labra, lèvre, lip; vela, voile, sail.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest




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