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shego's avatar

What are the little ball shaped things in your lower lip that connects to the chin called?

Asked by shego (11093points) November 27th, 2009

I am not trying to be nasty, but I want to know what it is called, and I don’t really know how to describe it, except for the little ball shaped things in the lower lip.
I am asking because I bit my just below my lower lip yesterday, and the question popped into my head, after cursing the turkey.

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shego's avatar

@ItalianPrincess1217 bite your lip, cause if that’s the case, then you have it too.

Harp's avatar

If you’re talking about the little lumps you can feel when you run your tongue over the inner surface of your lower lip, those are minor salivary glands. There are 600 -1000 of those little guys sprinkled around your mouth, just under the pink lining.

ItalianPrincess1217's avatar

@shego Settle down. It was a joke. I just didn’t know the correct scientific answer to your question. But it sounds like @Harp did a pretty good job explaining it. GA Harp!

shego's avatar

@Harp yes thank you. I just wanted to know what they were called.
@ItalianPrincess1217 No I wasn’t being rude, I figured it was a joke, and I know I can be pretty direct, But I meant nothing by it. Maybe, I should have put a smiley face at the end. Sorry

ItalianPrincess1217's avatar

@shego Well no hard feelings. Here, I’ll put one :) All better!

jfos's avatar

I have never seen two females solve a problem with such directness and honesty.

Sarcasm's avatar

I think that “such” doesn’t belong in the sentence, @jfos

jfos's avatar

@Sarcasm And perhaps “and” should be “or”.

trailsillustrated's avatar

frenulum. theyre called frenulum

Darwin's avatar

@trailsillustrated – No, a frenulum is a membranous fold of skin or mucous membrane that supports or restricts the movement of a part or organ, such as the small band of tissue that connects the underside of the tongue to the floor of the mouth. Or the small bands that attach the upper lip to the gum, and ditto the lower lip. Here is a picture of the one on the upper lip.

The little round things are salivary glands, like @Harp said.

trailsillustrated's avatar

@Darwin oh ok. I thought he was talking about the attachments ps I know what salivary glands are

esachaol1's avatar

I haveone as well and I think it is called a Mucocele
here is the link I found it on

http://hubpages.com/hub/Mucocele

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