Inferior labial artery Puns

18F, 172cm, 57kg, Australia

No drugs, no smoking

Existing iron deficiency, anxiety

Hi, ever since I got a (now healed) canker sore about a week and a half ago, I've been noticing that I can feel what I think might be parts of my right superior labial artery, and parts of both my inferior labial arteries with my tongue and fingers. The canker sore might be more correlation than causation, but I definitely wasn't able to feel the arteries last month.

The reason I think they are arteries is because they are pulsatile in the same rhythm as my heartbeat, and their location https://imgur.com/3mq8k8A .

They however aren't visible but can be felt. The top 'line' is about 1.5cm long and maybe 2mm thick while the bottom 'lines' are about 1cm long and 1mm thick although it's hard to measure properly.

I'm not extremely worried since they aren't painful, don't seem to be getting larger quickly, can be easily compressed and there is no red spotting or bleeding in my mouth, but I am slightly concerned that they showed up seemingly randomly.

After ignoring the inevitable cancer and chronic illness diagnoses that Dr. Google was trying to convince me I had, I came across a bunch of medical papers on something called 'Caliber Persistent Labial Artery' that sounds a bit similar with it being an apparently common undiagnosed issue - but I'm just a person curious about medicine and have no idea if I'm missing something possibly more worrisome.

What do the doctors on here think? Is my anxiety just acting up and it turns out everyone actually has arteries in their mouth that I haven't been able to feel until now?

I'll also ask my doctor at my next appointment in about a month since it doesn't feel urgent, but I was hoping I might be able to get some answers in the meantime.

Thankyou!

For someone with recurrent aphthous ulcers on the inside of the lip who uses Debacterol from time with great success (and has tried all other available remedies with no success), is there any reason not to use Debacterol for an ulcer on the inferior labial frenulum?

Thanks!

I’m 19f, no medications. I’ve been talking to my friend and I found out she has a frenulum at the bottom of her mouth and I don’t but then I googled it and apparently everyone is supposed to have one? I don’t have one and never realised people do, help?

According to FA, it's the RCA, and according to Uworld, it's the PDA. I know the PDA is usually a branch off the RCA, but what confuses me is that FA specifically notes that the PDA feeds the "posterior" portion of the heart (V7-V9) but doesn't mention it in the blurb about II, III, and aVF. Thank you so much!

Now what did I just tell you?

Audiologist states that my hearing is better than perfect. My tinnitus is louder than the spray of water as you stand in the shower.

Does anyone have any experience with this diagnosis? Has anyone had the surgery to correct the compression of the acoustic nerve?

Now, labial (p, b, m, etc.), coronal (t, d, n, etc) and dorsal/velar (k, g, etc) - those seem to be the "basic" places of articulation, and most languages make a three-way distinction between them.

So I got to wondering about the typology of languages that lack them:

Lack of labials appear to be an areal trait. All languages that lack them are (to the extent of my knowledge) located somewhere in North America. Some languages that lack them are unrelated, but part of the same small area (like Tillamook, which is a Salishan language, a family that doesn't otherwise lack labials. I don't know Tillamook's areal influence but it is separate from the other Salishan languages so I guess it picked it up from its neighbours), while others appear to have inherited it from their proto-language (Oto-Manguean, Iroquois, Athabaskan - although the proto-language apparently had /m/). So I assume that it's an areal feature, albeit a really, really old one given its uneven spread across the continent.

Now, lack of dorsals/velars appears only spontaneously in mostly unrelated languages across the globe (although it does appear in several different Skou languages). As far as I know it's not an areal trait anywhere.

Lastly, lack of coronals is only recorded in a single dialect of one language - Northwest Mekeo has no phonemic coronals whatsoever, although [n] appears as an allophone of /ŋ/.

Now, I was wondering:

Is there thought to be some kind of restriction as to what unusual features can be areal traits, or is it simple coincidence that the lack of labials is an areal feature while the lack of dorsals and coronals only occur spontaneously? Could the lack of dorsals or coronals - theoretically - also occur as an areal trait? In the article on NW Mekeo, the author theorizes that the incredibly rarity of the trait is simple due to how unstable the resulting system is - NW Mekeo is already gaining coronals through areal influence. Is the lack of labials generally more stable? Or is its survival in language families like Iroquois simply due to perpetual language contact between speakers of languages which lack labials? It would also seem that a lack of dorsals is easier to develop - given that it seems to develop independently all over the globe, while lack of labials seems restricted to one particular continent.

Do you pronounce it "I.M.A"? (just like the inferior mesenteric a.)?

Or is it [aima]? [eema]?

Brought our 15 month old daughter to the Pediatrician today and he noticed she has a labial adhesion. He usually checks her vagina every checkup but only saw it now. Has this happened to anyone?? He said I can just put some petroleum jelly on it and it should resolve on its own. How common is this?? Anyone here go through the same thing w their daughter?

Has anyone heard of labial and pubic fat grafting to make a better mons pubis and fill in some of the top labia around the clit for postop vaginoplasty women?

I speak Swedish, English and a little German and I've noticed these are really rare. It's usaly in single syllable words, in compounds or in loan words. Did it simply evolve away random or other reasons?

Hello.. it's been months I have continuous itchy bubbles/red points on the mouth and sometimes on the perineum and anus too, small, white, red around them, they burn, but they don't look like they crust over. It's always on the same spots, but my doctor took a look and he said it doesn't look like herpes. I just took a blood test and I'm waiting for the results, but I've read you have to wait 6 months after you heal to get the results. The thing is, it always keeps going on the lips, and on the anus it lasts a bit but they don't burst, they just disappear, but they are very uncomfortable. I'm very scared of it and I don't know how to do if I do have it, there is a person I'm getting to know, and how to I break it to them if I have it? And if it's on the perineum, a condom doesn't help... I don't know what to do... i'm screwed..

Brought our 15 month old to her pediatrician today and he noticed a labial adhesion. He told me to just apply petroleum jelly on it every night and it should correct itself (like if she falls, etc). He said it’s common but I’m still worried! Any insights? Same experiences? Does it really correct itself easily?

I've had this happen to me twice about a year apart.
My gyno doesn't have a specific name or diagnosis for this. She just calls it a labial abscess.
The problem is that fluids sometimes aren't being drained properly during/after sex or arousal, and it builds up beneath my left inner labia. That whole side gets enlarged and feels like a small water balloon. It's pretty deep beneath the surface and isn't something that comes to a head. It just gets really big and painful.

This last time has been overall a worse experience than the first.
I had it for a couple of months before it was big and full enough for my gyno to extract it. When it finally got big enough, I woke up feeling feverish and nauseous. Extraction and recovery has been more painful. Recovery is taking a long time, too. Almost 6 weeks later, it still feels inflamed, the labia is sticking out more than usual and I constantly feel it when sitting, walking, anything. Sex and riding a bike last week were a little painful and have caused more inflammation for days now.

It would be so helpful to know about others' experiences with this.
Has anyone else here had this type of abscess? Any advice for healing and/or prevention?