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
He started playing in adult leagues and became so invested that in his mid-30s, when a surgeon told him he’d torn his labrum, he said, “Is my career over?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
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
Mouth.—The teeth or beads on the crest of the labrum are blunt, few, not very small, and equidistant.
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
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
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 Bartholomew Sastrow
