Is There A Word For The 'top Lip'?

[plowter]

Is there a medical term for the 'top lip' - the fleshy triangle between the bottom of the nose and the horizontal edges of the lip?

[ChillDoubt]

Filtrum?

[Mamyalynne]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philtrum

[ChillDoubt]

Philtrum, even!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filtrum

[plowter]

Nope. The filtrum is the groove in the top lip.
I mean the whole fleshy triangle.
Think John Major.

[boxtops]

My nose hasn't got a fleshy triangle outside the filtrum path...

[sandyRoe]

You'd think in a man it might be the moustache zone, but probably not

[jno]

just the upper lip, isn't it? As in keeping a stiff upper lip.

[Sqad]

No, there isn't.

[sandyRoe]

and if anyone has ever suffered a thick lip it's not just the lip but much of the area under the nose.

[plowter]

Yeah, sandyR, the moustachey bit.
What's it called?

[pauln90]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip

[plowter]

No pauln, I mean the whole top lip.
The fleshy triangle between the bottom of the nose and the horizontal edges of the lip

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/steve_bell/2001/05/30/bell512.jpg

[DTCwordfan]

Infraorbital triangle, plowter

[Sqad]

plowter......NO THERE ISN'T.....how many more bloody times.

[plowter]

Sorry, DTCwordfan. infraorbital means 'below the orbit (of the eye)'.
It's prolly something like 'maxilla'.
Every part of the body has a name.
Any other suggestions?

[Tilly2]

Plowter, is this a quiz?

[ChillDoubt]

Any other suggestions?
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Don't tempt me.........

[woofgang]

Labium superius oris
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_medical_terms_meaning_lower_and_upper_lip?#slide=2

but I wouldn't get excited, its the latin for "lip, upper, of the mouth"

[plowter]

Soz no Tilly, not a quiz.
I thought every part of the human body had a fancydan, sunday name
Am sure this has been a question on AB before.

Are there any parts of the human body that don't have a name?
If so, how do medics describe them?

I've got a pain in my thingumybob, just below my wotsit, but not as far up as my jimminy.

If them Romans didn't come up with a name for every part of the human body they don't deserve their empire.

[tamborine]

Musculus levator labii superioris alaequae nasi

thats roman ;)