I will have to disagree with this dictionary, then, because labia is plural: 1 labium, 2 labia. According to my medical dictionary ("Zakwoordenboek der Geneeskunde", Coelho&Kloosterhuis) labium means lip and is applicable for all lips or lip-like structures. 

Warmly,

Gonneke, IBCLC, LLLL in southern Netherlands



Royce Anderson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:OK guys, my Miler/dictionary of medicine and nursing says, "Labium (pleural
for labia) is a border or edge; a lip, then it categorizes the labia majus
as the hairy fold of skin on either side of the vulva and the labia minor as
the small fold of skin on either side, between that labia majora and the
opening of the vagina."


Met vriendelijke groet, 

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC 
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