labia minora

From Latin (meaning “smaller lips”).

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labia minora pl (normally plural, singular labium minus)

1. (anatomy) The two inner folds of skin within the cleft of the labia majora.

   The ventral skin of the penis is homologous to the labia minora.

   • 2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     When performed poorly, a labiaplasty — a procedure to reduce the size of the labia minora, and one of the fastest-growing cosmetic surgeries worldwide — can also damage nerves, leading to genital pain and loss of sexual sensation.

This term is only used for primates. In other placental mammals, the term labia vulvae is used instead.

• urogenital folds - embryological precursor

• labia majora