How to Use labrum in a Sentence
labrum
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The surgery will not fix the labrum but will fix the area around it to help ease the pain.
—Washington Post, 13 July 2019
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This was my second labrum surgery, and not a lot of guys come back from that.
—Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2022
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La’el Collins had surgery to repair a torn labrum in his hip.
—Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 31 Oct. 2020
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The result was a low-grade labrum tear in her left shoulder.
—Zak Keefer, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
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Dixon played in just two games before having surgery on his labrum.
—Ben Thomas | [email protected], al, 30 Mar. 2022
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Pictured here is the sixth piece, called the labrum, which funnels out blood.
—Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 8 Jan. 2021
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The one that worked out well was a labrum and not a dislocation.
—Matt Zenitz | [email protected], al, 19 Nov. 2019
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Walker had surgery to repair a torn labrum in his shoulder.
—Connor Riley, AJC.com, 17 Mar. 2026
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Fox 4 said Worthy had a torn labrum repaired.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 15 Jan. 2026
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The long layoff is to allow the labrums and the cartilage time to heal.
—Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 22 May 2026
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Nelson had missed the previous four months with a torn labrum in his right shoulder.
—New York Times, 10 Apr. 2022
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Then in the opener at Iowa, Pugh tore the labrum in his right shoulder.
—Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022
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What if Tuukka Rask hadn’t been playing through a torn labrum in his hip?
—BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2021
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Dellinger tore his labrum as a sophomore and missed the basketball season and chose not to play last year.
—Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2020
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Behind the labrum, the mouth slit was also exquisitely preserved.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 9 July 2024
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The wild card here is Taron Vincent, who missed all of last season due to a torn labrum.
—Nathan Baird, cleveland, 9 June 2020
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The labrum usually tears off the bone and does not have the ability to heal itself.
—Dr. Harlan Selesnick, miamiherald, 17 July 2017
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The junior linebacker was dealing with a torn labrum in his hip that kept him off the field for nearly two months.
—Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 7 May 2026
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The labrum is a ring of cartilage that helps stabilize the shoulder joint.
—Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2022
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Mayfield will need surgery at some point to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder but wants to play through the injury.
—BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2021
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This injury, to a different part of the same labrum, may require surgery quicker.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
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But labrum-shaming was just one of the adverse events Schwartz suffered in his rookie year.
—cleveland, 25 July 2022
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Then, the mosquito uses one stylet—the labrum—to prod around, seeking a blood vessel to pierce.
—John Sass, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
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Prior to her concussion, Dygert was battling a torn labrum in her hip and a bulging disk in her back.
—Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Sep. 2020
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The labrum cushions the hip and acts like a seal to hold the ball at the top of the femur (thigh bone) within the hip socket.
—Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024
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This deformity can lead to a tearing of a cartilage in the hip joint called the labrum.
—Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024
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The labrum is a cartilage ring that follows and cushions the outside rim of the socket of a hip joint.
—Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com, 10 Feb. 2018
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English, 32, had been feeling the affects of a torn labrum and a bone spur since his college days.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2022
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Then Johnson suffered a torn labrum in her right shoulder in the middle of that summer.
—Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
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ElAttrache also repaired a small tear in the back of the shoulder labrum.
—Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 6 July 2019
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