Anat. [dim. of FRÆNUM.] A small frænum; a frænum.
1706. in Phillips (ed. Kersey).
1840. Youatt, Horse, viii. (1847), 204. A portion of the tongue of a mare, extending as far as the frænulum beneath, lying in the manger in a strangely lacerated condition, and fast approaching to decomposition.
1843. J. G. Wilkinson, trans. Swedenborg’s Anim. Kingd., I. ii. 59. Each of the lips has its peculiar frænulum.
