frenulum
Americannoun
plural
frenula-
Anatomy, Zoology. a small frenum.
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Entomology. a strong spine or group of bristles on the hindwing of many butterflies and moths, projecting beneath the forewing and serving to hold the two wings together in flight.
noun
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a strong bristle or group of bristles on the hind wing of some moths and other insects, by which the forewing and hind wing are united during flight
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a small fraenum
Other Word Forms
- frenular adjective
Etymology
Origin of frenulum
First recorded in 1890–95; New Latin, from frēn(um) frenum + -ulum, neuter of -ulus -ule
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Nonetheless, Zaghi advocates for a surgery that cuts through the frenulum and sometimes into the muscle.
From Salon • Sep. 25, 2021
Cutting the frenulum could even make sleep worse, Baldassari says.
From Salon • Sep. 25, 2021
People with the congenital anomaly ankyloglossia, also known by the non-medical term “tongue tie,” have a lingual frenulum that is too short or otherwise malformed.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The labial frenulum is a midline fold of mucous membrane that attaches the inner surface of each lip to the gum.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
According to H. Carstens the frenulum is called in Low German keekel-reem or kikkel-reem, which seems to be derived from käkeln, "to cry, shriek," and reem, "band, cord," so that the word really signifies "speech-band."
From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Chamberlain, Alexander F.
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