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Definition of Lipping
1. a liplike outgrowth of bone [n -S]
Medical Definition of Lipping
1. The formation of a liplike structure, as at the articular end of a bone in osteoarthritis. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lipping
Literary usage of Lipping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon (1908)
"... out on the links—Golf reporting in America —Ingenious and good—Mistakes made
by non-golfing writers—lipping the hole for a hundred dollars. ..."
2. Supplement to Encyclopædia Britannica (ninth Edition): A Dictionary of Arts (1891)
"The ball must be grasped with sufficient firmness to prevent its premature •lipping
out of ... lipping ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"He did not mean that the condition of the vertebrae shown was not characteristic
of Pott's disease, but a little "lipping" did not necessarily mean syphilis ..."
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