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labium

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labium
1. a lip or liplike structure
2. any one of the four lip-shaped folds of the female vulva
3. the fused pair of appendages forming the lower lip of insects
4. the lower lip of the corolla of labiate flowers

labium [′lā·bē·əm]
(biology)
A liplike structure.
The lower lip, as of a labiate corolla or of an insect.


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Women tested for the first time in their follicular phase showed higher labium minor temperature in response to the film and reported increased sexual desire and more frequent sexual fantasies during the 24 hours following the experimental session.
b) Labium minus temperature was first used by Henson, Rubin, and Henson (1979a, 1979b).
However, both VPA (a measure of the strength of the pulse of the vessels in the vaginal epithelium) and thermal readings from the labium minus may show residual effects long after the stimulus has been removed.
 
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