labium minus

"Labium minus pudendi.

Labial reduction by means of a central wedge-resection involves cutting and removing a full-thickness wedge of tissue from the thickest portion of the labium minus.

In the lower third of each labium minus is the small opening of Bartholin's gland, which produces a viscid secretion to aid lubrication in sexual intercourse.

One resection-technique variation features a clamp placed across the area of labial tissue to be resected, in order to establish hemostatis (stopped blood-flow), and the surgeon resects the tissues, and then sutures the cut labium minus or labia minora.

The labia minora (singular: labium minus), also known as the inner labia, inner lips, vaginal lips, or nymphae, are two flaps of skin on either side of the human vaginal opening, situated between the labia majora (outer labia, or outer lips).