upper lip

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 human body.

Where the upper lip is

It sits in the head, within the digestive system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the upper lip connects to

The atlas records 23 typed relationships for it, across 9 kinds of connection. part of upper jaw region.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: artery of upper lip. Venous drainage: vein of upper lip. Innervation: infra-orbital nerve.

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: body proper, craniocervical region, digestive system, digestive tract, face and head, and 4 more.
contains: frenulum of upper lip, mucosa of upper lip, philtrum, skin of upper lip and upper vermilion.
inserts into: levator labii superioris and levator labii superioris alaeque nasi.
Supplied by: artery of upper lip.
Innervated by: infra-orbital nerve.
contributes to morphology of: philtrum.

Questions

Where is the upper lip?

What does the upper lip connect to?

Part of: upper jaw region.

Is the upper lip the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.