"Frenum" Quotes from Famous Books
... 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 |