vermillion border

A newer procedure uses a carbon dioxide laser to ablate the vermillion border.

There is also a loss of the usually sharp border between the red of the lip and the normal skin, known as the vermillion border.

She uses a variety of fillers, including fat, which she injects everywhere from the hands to the vermillion border of the lips.

And the pink part of the lip, it's called the 'vermillion border,' will roll up, and all of a sudden your lip will be fuller permanently.

The transition of the reddish-pink outline of your lips to the rest of the skin is called the vermillion border, and it's found only in humans [source: Ditkoff].

The commisure is the corner of the mouth, where the vermillion border of the superior labium (upper lip) meets that of the inferior labium (lower lip).

Relative contraindications to cryosurgery include tumors of the scalp, ala nasi, nasolabial fold, tragus, postauricular sulcus, free eyelid margin, upper lip vermillion border, and lower legs.

The red appearance of the vermillion border is due to several factors, one of which is the transparent nature of eleidin showing the color of the red blood cells beneath.

Even in cancer derived from the skin, SCC from different anatomic locations can have moderately differing aggressiveness; for example SCC from glabrous (smooth, hairless) skin has a lower metastatic rate than SCC arising from the vermillion border of the lip or from scars.