UPPER LIP

Traducere în limba română

upper lip substantiv

(anat.) buză superioară.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

"Come in," Messner called, in a voice muffled because at the moment he was sucking loose a fragment of ice from its anchorage on his upper lip.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

It seemed to me that Mr. St. John's under lip protruded, and his upper lip curled a moment.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

This causes an opening in the upper lip.

(Cleft Lip and Palate, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

The jaw dropped, the upper lip lifted, and two rows of tobacco-discoloured teeth appeared.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The external surface of the upper lip.

(External Upper Lip, NCI Thesaurus)

A thin, quadrilateral muscle originating at the lower margin of the orbit and attaching to the muscles of the upper lip to elevate the lip.

(Levator Labii Superioris, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign, small, papular or nodular skin neoplasm that usually arises above the upper lip.

(Pilar Sheath Acanthoma, NCI Thesaurus)

I'd been writing letters once a week and signing them: "Love, Nick," and all I could think of was how, when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

A congenital abnormality consisting of one or more clefts (splits) in the upper lip, which may be accompanied by a cleft palate; it is the result of the failure of the embryonic parts of the lip to fuse.

(Cleft Lip, NCI Thesaurus)

A shock of orange hair, a pale face disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be thrown at him by the passers-by.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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