Category: La-Lh

The lips are not only anatomic features of note, they are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. A sound requiring the participation of one or both lips is a labial (labium in Latin means lip) sound or, simply, a labial. All labials are consonants. There are bilabial sounds such as “p” which involve both lips and…

The smaller (minor) inside pair of labia (lips) of the vulva (the female external genitalia).

The larger (major) outside pair of labia (lips) of the vulva (the female external genitalia).

Lips, the fleshy folds that surround the opening of the mouth (oral labia) or the vagina (the labia majora and labia minora).

The symbols L1 through L5 represent the five lumbar vertebrae. The lumbar vertebrae are situated between the thoracic vertebrae and the sacral vertebrae in the spinal column.

Abbreviation for liter, a metric measure of capacity that, by definition, is equal to the volume of a kilogram of water at 4 degrees centigrade and at standard atmospheric pressure of 760 millimeters of mercury. The abbreviation for liter can also be written as a lower-case “l”. The word “liter” derives from the French “litre” and…