lip in dogs

One of the two fleshy folds which surround the opening of the mouth. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the lip is

One of the two fleshy folds which surround the opening of the mouth. The atlas records it as an anatomical structure at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the lip is

It sits in the head, within the digestive system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the lip connects to

The atlas records 10 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of face and mouth.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: artery of lip.

Also called

Also recorded as labia oris and lips. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001833, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: face and mouth.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.
• contains: lip skeletal muscle and skin of lip.
• subtype: lower lip and upper lip.
• contributes to morphology of: mouth.
• surrounds: oral opening.
• Supplied by: artery of lip.

Questions

Where is the lip?

It sits in the head, within the digestive system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the lip connect to?

Part of: face and mouth.

Is the lip the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.