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Frenum   Listen
noun
frenum, fraenum  n.  (pl. E. fraenums, L. fraena)  (Anat.) A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fraenum of the tongue.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... is applied to a condition occasionally met with in young men, in which there is a hypertrophy of the labial glands in the mucous membrane of the upper lip. It is of slow growth, and forms an elongated swelling on each side of the frenum, covering the teeth, and projecting the lip. It is shotty to the feel, and the only complaint is of disfigurement. The treatment consists in excising the redundant fold of mucous membrane, including the ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles



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