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In anatomy, the head of an animal is the anterior part (from anatomical position) that comprises the mouth, the brain and various sensory organs (e.g. organs of sight, hearing, smell and taste). Head - Anatomy. The front (ventrum) of the head, where the eyes and ears and mouth are located, is called the face. The area above the eyes is called the forehead (the front of the head). Below the mouth is the chin. Younger aged humans and some older humans heads have a continuing growing layer ...

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The skin of the lips is stratified squamous epithelium. The mucous membrane is represented by a large area in the sensory cortex and is therefore highly sensitive. Lip - Sensory nerve supply. Trigeminal nerve The infraorbital nerve is a branch of the maxillary branch. It supplies not only the upper lip, but much of the skin of the face between the upper lip and the lower eyelid, except for the bridge of the nose. The mental nerve is a branch of the mandibular branch ( via the inferior alveolar nerve). It supplies the skin and mucous membrane of the lower lip and labial gin ...

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It is more common in females and after 50 years of age. Below this age it is extremely rare. Patients present with: fever headache tenderness and sensitivity on the scalp jaw claudication reduced visual acuity (blurred vision) acute visual loss (sudden blindness) The inflammation may affect blood supply to the eye and blurred vision or sudden blindness may occur. In 76% of cases involving the eye the optic nerve is involved causing anterior ischemic optic neuropathy. Loss of vision in both eyes may occur very abruptly and ...

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Temporal arteritis, Temporal arteritis - Symptoms, Temporal arteritis - Diagnosis, Temporal arteritis - Treatment

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The front (ventrum) of the head, where the eyes and ears and mouth are located, is called the face. The area above the eyes is called the forehead (the front of the head). Below the mouth is the chin. Younger aged humans and some older humans heads have a continuing growing layer of hair covering the head. Most females of the human race do not lose this covering during the aging process, however some males can lose their head hair as they grow older. In most complex animals the head is joined to the rest of the body by the neck. Head - Hu ...

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Lip - Food intake. Because they have their own muscles and bordering muscles, the lips are very movable. Lips are used for eating functions, like holding food or to get it in the mouth. In addition, lips serve to close the mouth airtight shut, and to hold food and drink inside, and to keep out unwanted objects. Through making a narrow funnel with the lips, the suction of the mouth is increased. This suction is essential for babies to breast feed. ...

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Lip, Lip - Anatomical basics of the human lip, Lip - Anatomy in detail, Lip - Sensory nerve supply, Lip - Blood supply, Lip - Muscles acting on the lips, Lip - Functions of the lips, Lip - Food intake, Lip - Tactile organ, Lip - Articulation, Lip - Facial expressions, Lip - Erogonous zone, Lip - Symbolic meaning, Lip - Changes to the lip, Lip - Diseases, Lip - Literature

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People who are more intelligent than normal are sometimes depicted in cartoons as having bigger heads, as a way of indicating that they have more brains; in science fiction, an alien having a big head is often symbolic of high intelligence. However, minor changes in brain size do not have much affect on intelligence in humans. For humans, the head and particularly the face are the main distinguishing feature between different people, due to their easily discernible features such as hair and eye color, nose, eye and mouth shapes, wrinkles, etc. In English slang, sometimes a boastful ...

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One differentiates between the Upper (Labium superioris) and lower lip (Labium inferioris), the lower is usually somewhat larger. The skin of the lip with its three to five cellular layers is very thin compared to the typical face skin with up to 16. With light skin color, the lip skin contains no melanocyte (pigment cells, which give skin its color}. Because of this, the blood vessels appears through the skin of the lips and leads to a notable red coloring of the lips. With darker skin color, this effect is less noticable, because in this case the skin of th ...

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Lip, Lip - Anatomical basics of the human lip, Lip - Anatomy in detail, Lip - Sensory nerve supply, Lip - Blood supply, Lip - Muscles acting on the lips, Lip - Functions of the lips, Lip - Food intake, Lip - Tactile organ, Lip - Articulation, Lip - Facial expressions, Lip - Erogonous zone, Lip - Symbolic meaning, Lip - Changes to the lip, Lip - Diseases, Lip - Literature

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Unlike other parts of the body clothing is most often not worn on the head. The most common headwear is a hat. This may be either a woolen hat, designed to keep the head warm or a baseball cap, to protect against the sun. In some african and asian cultures a turban is worn by men the same way. Women from islamic cultures sometimes wear veils which cover the hair. These two items are may be religiously mandatory. Hoods or balaclavas are designed mainly to keep the neck warm but may also hide the face. Wearing of non-religious clothing ...

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