Lip

The lips are a horizontal pair of soft appendages attached to the jaws and are the most visible part of the mouth of many animals, including humans. Vertebrate lips are soft, movable and serve to facilitate the ingestion of food (e.g. suckling and gulping) and the articulation of sound and speech. Human lips are also a somatosensory organ, and can be an erogenous zone when used in kissing and other acts of intimacy.

"Lips" redirects here. For the band, see Lips (New Zealand band). For the surname, see Lips (surname). For other uses, see Lip (disambiguation).
This article is about the skin and muscle in front of the mouth. For the mouth itself, see Human mouth.
Not to be confused with Lisp.
This article uses anatomical terminology.
Lip
Human lips
Details
Arteryinferior labial, superior labial
Veininferior labial, superior labial
Nervefrontal, infraorbital
Identifiers
Latinlabia oris
MeSHD008046
TA98A05.1.01.005
TA22775
FMA59816
Anatomical terminology
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