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vermilion border

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border /bor·der/ (bor´der) a bounding line, edge, or surface.
brush border  a specialization of the free surface of a cell, consisting of minute cylindrical processes (microvilli) that greatly increase the surface area.
vermilion border  the exposed red portion of the upper and lower lips.

ver·mil·ion border (vr-mlyn)
n.
The exposed margin of the upper or lower lip.

Vermilion border
The line between the lip and the skin.
Mentioned in: Maxillofacial Trauma

vermilion border
[vərmil′yən]
Etymology: L, vermillium, bright red; OFr, bordure, frame
the external pinkish-to-red area of the upper and lower lips. It extends from the junction of the lips with the surrounding facial skin on the exterior to the labial mucosa within the mouth.

border [bor´der]
a bounding line, edge, or surface.
brush border a specialization of the free surface of a cell, consisting of minute cylindrical processes (microvilli) that greatly increase the surface area.
Brush border, characterized by closely packed microvilli. From Dorland's, 2000.
vermilion border the exposed red portion of the upper and lower lips.

vermilion border (vermil´yn),
n the junction between the lip and the facial skin.


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To augment the vermilion border and/or to define the philtrum ridges, the Medium Gel is recommended.
The accessory parotid gland is located approximately 6 mm anterior to the main parotid gland, between the skin and the masseter muscle along an imaginary line that extends from the tragus to a point midway between the ala of the nose and the vermilion border of the lip.
1 MINUTE: Unwrapping a new syringe of Restylane, Ann gently started at the corner of Marie's mouth and pushed the needle into the vermilion border (the line around the mouth between the lips and the skin surrounding them).
 
 
 
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