upper lip in dogs

Lip that covers the upper portion of the mouth.[TAO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the upper lip is

Lip that covers the upper portion of the mouth.[TAO]. The atlas records it as an anatomical structure at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the upper 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 upper lip connects to

The atlas records 16 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of upper jaw region.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: artery of upper lip. Venous drainage: vein of upper lip.

Also called

Also recorded as upper jaw lip and labium superius oris. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001834, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: upper jaw region.
• A kind of: lip.
• Develops from: craniocervical region, digestive system, digestive tract, face, head and midface, and 3 more.
• Supplied by: artery of upper lip.
• inserts into: levator labii superioris.
• contributes to morphology of: philtrum.
• contains: philtrum.
• Drained by: vein of upper lip.

Questions

Where is the upper 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 upper lip connect to?

Part of: upper jaw region.

Is the upper 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.