labrum
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Luffy beetles have the dorsal ridge teeth found in this lineage, but their labrum is not completely sclerotized.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 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
When the halfpipe superstar tore her labrum in her left shoulder in training a month ago, her hopes of becoming the first person to win three consecutive Olympic snowboarding gold medals were in jeopardy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 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
The three parasites were attached, as stated, close under the labrum, between it and the adductor muscle.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
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
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 T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
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
