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Prominent lips
Prominent lips is a facial feature in which a person's lips appear large in comparison to the average person of the same racial/ethnic group. Facial features can be familial (passed from parent to child), or they can sometimes be due to a medical condition.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
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A 29-year old asked:
How many injections are needed to get prominent lips?
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A 40-year old asked:
Cramp in my toes, veins more prominent, and my lips have gone really red, what to do?
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A 42-year old asked:
Cramp in my toes, veins more prominent and my lips have gone really red. What does all this indicate?
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A 45-year old asked:
Why is cleft lip more prominent in males than females?
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A 34-year old male asked:
I have dry red skin around my mouth. Prominent below my lower lips. This area becomes really dry/flaky even w/lotion.Worse after drinking beer.
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A male asked:
Hello, Doctor. For the last few weeks my right eye has suffered frequent twitches. They've become more prominent recently. The past few days I've also suffered a lot of twitching in my lower lip. I do have a very stressful job and have struggled with th
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A male asked:
Sir ,i am suffering with pain in neck and head.i went thru x-ray for the same.. in report "transverse process of C7 is prominent bilateral" .
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A member asked:
I have a hard lump on right side of the back of my head it's more prominent when I have neck and head pain otherwise it doesn't hurt. What is it?
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A 42-year old asked:
Head bandage vs headband after otoplasty for prominent ears in adults, which is better?
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A 30-year old female asked:
Inner side of my left cheek seems puffier more prominent than the right side. No pain. Not a lump just looks bigger when I open my mouth Is itcancer?
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A 32-year old male asked about a female:
My daughter have bulging on top of head its soft & very prominent & its from the day of her birth she is 2 weeks old.She eat & sleep well. Pls guide m?
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A 16-year old female asked:
When I was 18 months old, I fell on my head, causing a large bump on the right side of my head. Fifteen years later, the bump is still very prominent and I have severe headaches in the same spot often. Is there any correlation?
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A male asked:
Cat scan of head showed prominent lytic of the frontal bone and the C3 what could this mean?
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A male asked:
My baby is 2 days old and has a very prominent ridge on his head- temple to temple- is this anything to be concerned about? I had a c-section. He was born at 38 weeks and 5 days and weighed 3.32 at birth no complications
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A 31-year old male asked:
Why on one testicle i can feel Epididymis structure/ head on top very prominently then the other testicle one ?? its head start point feel like a ball sorts and i do have an spermatocele cyst on the same Epididymis so is it due to that ???
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A 36-year old asked:
My 7 year old has a very prominent fibula head on both legs. you can see it when shes standing and sitting. Dr said its cosmetic. If he's wrong, and its not cosmetic what else could it be? She is very very thin, and my husband has it too.
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A 44-year old male asked:
When feeling left testicle, the top of the epididymis (epididymis head) moves around as if it is not attached to the testicle. No pain unless Im touching/moving it and the epididymis feels more prominent than the other one. Paranoid or is it normal?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Is it normal for the fibula head on right leg to be more prominent/bigger than left side? i believe what im touching is the fistula head at the side of my knee, just below the knee. No pain
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A 42-year old male asked:
Having intermittent pain in right shoulder between the humeral head and elbow. Seems more prominent during lateral movement than vertical motion.
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A 50-year old female asked about a 50-year old female:
Can excessive yawning or frequently opening mouth wide daily (such as to shout or sing) cause the small bump on sides of bridge of nose to get bigger or become more prominent? Or does only surgery change nose/bump shape?
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A 22-year old male asked:
Inflammed white vein from foreskin to head of penis. Bluish purple prominent veins along the foreskin connecting to urethra. Caused by trauma. When I press down on vein I feel discomfort. Is this permanent and will diosmin topical cure the disease?
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A 48-year old female asked:
Ct head scan results are frontal lobe sulci bilateral prominent. Prominate subarachnold space. Midline lipoma. Anterior interhemispheric fissure promi?
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A 76-year old female asked about a 50-year old male:
On a CT with contrast of Abd/Pelvis it say "Hypodensity in the pancreatic head may represent IPMN or small pseudocyst. Slightly prominent pancreatic ?
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A 22-year old female asked:
Can sinusitis cause a new prominent vein and bright flashes in that part of the eye sometimes when i tilt my head, and facial and head tenderness? Docs weren't sure. If not, what can?
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A 27-year old female asked:
...Prominent CSF space in the superior posterior fossa, unchanged. It is favored that this represents prominent subarachnoid space/normal variation rather than an arachnoid cyst. Is this Mega Cistern Magna? Extra fluid? From a head injury?
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A 27-year old female asked:
My MRI for chronic headache/head pressure said ...Prominent CSF space in the superior posterior fossa, unchanged. It is favored that this represents prominent subarachnoid space/normal variation rather than an arachnoid cyst. What does that mean?
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A 18-year old female asked:
The skin above my lips has been getting raw and chapped. This has been getting worse over the last few days and it began 3 days ago after prolonged sun exposer (I dont know if thats relate to) The same thing occurred last year around the same time?
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A 18-year old female asked:
My upper lips becomes white, but once its wet it goes back to its normal colour but as soon as it dries again, it turns white. I wanted to know why this happens?
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A 28-year old female asked:
Hey, how long does it take for a cut to heal in vaginal area its small & outer area close to lips ?
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A 18-year old male asked:
18y/o. Im in my third month of Isotretinoin. I started with 20 mg/day for two weeks, then 20 mg twice/day for 6 weeks. Now Its the 10th week with 30 mg twice/day. But since the beginning, only my lips have been dry and not the face. Is that normal?
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