Inferior labial artery

Looks like

A facial artery branch running along the lower lip, just under its inner lining.

What it does

Supplies the lower lip and joins its partner from the other side.

Keeping it well

A cut lip bleeds from both ends of it. Firm pressure on both sides of the cut stops it.

Related conditions

• Carotid artery stenosis
• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• Hypothermia & frostbite
• Kawasaki disease
• Metabolic syndrome
• Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
• Peripheral artery disease
• Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
• Pre-eclampsia
• Raynaud's phenomenon
• Sepsis
• Shock (circulatory failure)
• Takayasu arteritis
• Vasculitis (GCA & others)