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Lip Labrio Labia Lippa Cheilo Chilitis
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ LIP   start see> LAP                sug> FLAP
              see> LAPSE              sug> SLIP
        id+ | FOLD EDGE RIM MARGIN |  see> LICK
~ LIPS  id+ | FOLDS not always FLESHY |
^u      note OSCULA for KISS
  note OS for MOUTH as in ORAL
       which underscore overlap with ORAL CAVITY or MOUTH
  note implications in
  indeur   LEB          or
  fr       LEVRE      = LIP
  eng      LAP          LOOSE FOLD or A FOLD
  lat      LABI         SLIDE or SLIP
  old lat  LABRUM       or
           LABRUM       AN EDGE or
           LABRIO       BRIM OF A VESSEL later
  lat      LABIUM       LIP
           LABIA        LIPS  also VERBOSITIY
  sp       LABIO        LIP
  lat      LAMBERE      or
  sp       LAMER        LICK
  old eng  LIPPA        or
  old ger  LIPPE        FLESHY FOLDS
  gr       CHEILO       LIP
  med>     CHEILECTOMY  LIP EXCISION
           CHILITIS     INFLAMED LIP
  ukr      USTA         LIP and MOUTH  akin to
  lat      OS           as in
  med>     OSTOMY       for OPENING or HOLE
           OSCULA       LIPS or
           OSCULUM      PRETTY LITTLE MOUTH
           OSCULOR      TO KISS
  ukr      ROT          POT or ROUND opening or
  eng      HOLE         or
  ukr      HUBA         LIP and MOUTH or
  eng      HOLE         or POTHOLE LIKE
  med> LABIA represent FLESHY FOLDS as in
       FEMALE EXTERNAL GENITALIA
  hx> myth> LIPS WAS THE NAME OF A SOUTH WEST WIND
            THAT HURLED SHIPS INTO PIREUS or PEIRAEUS
  THE HARBOR OF ATHENS
  cont> SLIME
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