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Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :

My google-fu is extraordinarily weak, I must confess.I'm sure somebody here has to know. Little help?

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

frenulum

No, not quite. Hell, I'll check a book.

Maxillary vestibule? It's hard because they don't put it under Nose or under Lip.

[ May 18, 2006, 03:31 PM: Message edited by: pooka ]

Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :

philtrum. I believe a frenulum is an upper lip about 4 feet lower on a male.

Posted by Shmuel (Member # 7586) on :

Philtrum.

Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=philtrum&btnG=Google+Search&sa=N&tab=wi

Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :

Ha! I win!

Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :

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FYI: Area man has philtrum envy

That caption for the last picture on your link is freaking hilarious.

Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :

Thank you guys!

I will leave this up for a few hours so that Vonk may savor his victory. [Smile]

Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :

haHA!

*struts around like he thinks he's hot stuff*

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

Man, books suck.

Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :

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It's hard because they don't put it under Nose or under Lip

No, no, no. They put it under nose and over lip.

Oh golly

Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :

Elliot S! Maggin spelled it "filtrum" in his Superman novels. And claimed that only those races with filtrums were able to smile.

Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :

L'empreinte de l'ange.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

My mom calls it a "Cupid's bow".

Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

http://yestheyrefake.net/journals/marianne_collagenhumble.htm

I think her natural lips look better. They are less swollen, and the edges are more defined.

Posted by sweetbaboo (Member # 8845) on :

We call it the snot channel at our house.

Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :

According to that link, the cupid's bow is the line at the top of the lip; the border between the philtrum and the lip proper.

Obviously the scientific term is snot furrow.

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

Oddly enough, the Superman novel was where I learned this word [Smile]

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

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Originally posted by katharina:
http://yestheyrefake.net/journals/marianne_collagenhumble.htm

I think her natural lips look better. They are less swollen, and the edges are more defined.

I noticed those photos also, kat, and I agree. Her new lips just look kind of swollen and undefined. The original ones look much better, in my opinion.

Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :

From what the journal says, the original lips aren't her original lips anyway. This is like her 3rd or 4th procedure. I'll be she was rather pretty to start out with, but now... meh.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

It's worth pointing out that I don't have any particular problem with cosmetic surgery in general--I just didn't think that that particular application of it was particularly successful, from an an aesthetic standpoint.

Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Chris Bridges:
Oddly enough, the Superman novel was where I learned this word

I love those books. He has them online, now.

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Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :

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He has them online, now

ooh ooh! Could you by any chance link to that?

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

I don't call it. It always comes when I need it.

Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :

Delete something this funny? Why?

Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :

Okay. *shrug* I'll leave it.

Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :

*grin

It's a good thread.

(For what it's worth, "frenulum" is the general term for a little tag of skin that connects something (usually a larger fold) to the underlying structure. There is one common place for a frenulum in the genitalia (male and female), but you can also feel one on the underside of your upper lip, in the middle up under where your nose is. Also, there is often one in a similar place inside the lower lip.)

Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :

Ew. That means two weeks ago, I had a doctor cutting my frenulum. And, like, sticking needles through it. [Eek!]

Cool.

Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :

Yes, you are, I am afraid, no longer virginal in the frenulum. Alas.

[Hey! That's one heckuva huge frenulum.

Note: please do not do a google images search on "frenulum" and expect most of the pictures to be of the mouth area. I'm just sayin'. [Embarrassed]

]

Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :

I'm afraid to click on that link, for some reason. [Angst]

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

Elliot S! Maggin Superman novels

They age well, I think. In fact, I'm making a new topic.

Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :

It's a picture or the inside of a person's lip.

It's fairly disturbing.

Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :

quote:
What do you call that dip in your upper lip?

Barry.
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I'm not invited to many parties.

Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :

You know, I don't know how to do a beat in writing. Does anyone have a way that works?

Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :

If you go back to the index on the site Kat linked to, most of the stories are by the same woman.

Reading them is quite disturbing.

quote:
I went to my doctor with the complaint of my having a "ball-peen hammer nose"; clinically referred to as a 'Hanging Columella'. Now, I never really thought of my nose as unsightly until a very rude photographer said I had a "Ball-peen Hammer" nose. What the heck does that mean?!? So, ever since then I have been insecure about it (9 whole years until the day of the operation). Well, my doctor told me if I had just had the tip nipped and tucked and narrowed that the bone structure towards the top would look wide. Well, I never even thought I had a thick nose until he pointed it out. Alas! $3,000USD more than just having the tip 'done'. But, then of course after he pointed it out I obsessed about it. He was right, I had to have it done!

Ugh.