Lip

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Lip
Human lips
Details
Artery	Inferior labial, superior labial
Vein	Inferior labial, superior labial
Nerve	Frontal, infraorbital
Identifiers
Latin	labia oris
MeSH	D008046
TA98	A05.1.01.005
TA2	2775
FMA	59816
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

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.^[1] 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.