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Definition of Frenum
1. n. A cheek stripe of color.
Definition of Frenum
1. Noun. (alternative form of frenulum) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frenum
1. a connecting fold of membrane [n -NA or -NUMS]
Medical Definition of Frenum
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Frenum
Literary usage of Frenum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Institutes of surgery: Arranged in the Order of the Lectures Delivered in by Charles Bell (1838)
"The frenum is sometimes unnaturally strong and short. It may affect the speech,
but cannot interrupt sucking; for sucking is effected by the sinking of the ..."
2. A New Era of Thought by Charles Howard Hinton, Alicia Boole Stott, H. John Falk (1888)
"10. Urna, Ostrum, Comes, Spicula, Mars, Tibicen, Vestis, Oliva, Tyro, Aer, Remus,
Sector, Ala, Saltus, Scena. 11. frenum, Plebs ..."
3. Treatment of the diseases of children by Charles Gilmore Kerley (1907)
"The treatment consists in dividing the frenum with curved scissors. ... The frenum
is fixed in the slit in the broad end of the director which rests against ..."
4. Modern Dentistry by Joseph Head (1917)
"This factor is the extension of the frenum of the lip between the upper central
... This frenum must be extirpated, for otherwise the movement of the lip ..."
5. The Student's Manual of Venereal Diseases: Being a Concise Description of by Berkeley Hill, Arthur Cooper (1882)
"A ligature may be used when the artery of the frenum is the bleeding point If
the shortness of the frenum render intercourse painful, it should be divided ..."
6. A Manual of Operative Surgery by Lewis Atterbury Stimson (1878)
"DIVISION OF THE frenum. The tip of the tongue is raised upon the handle of — a
director, in the slit of which the frenum is engaged, divided with curved ..."
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