Austrian lip (English spelling) Austrian lip

Japanese: Austrian lip(英語表記)Austrianlip
Austrian lip (English spelling) Austrian lip

He explains that black people have thick, turned-up lips because the blackness of their skin reduces the value of the lips as a visual signal, so by protruding them, they make up for their loss in color contrast in shape and size. The House of Habsburg had a genetic lip abnormality called the "Austrian lip." In other words, Charles V's lower jaw protruded far beyond his upper jaw, so that when he grew old, his remaining teeth did not fit together, and he could not speak in an intelligible voice.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Austrian lip" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…黒人の唇が厚くめくれているのは,皮膚の黒さが唇の視覚信号としての価値を低めるので,大きく突出することによって色のコントラストで失ったものを形と大きさでとりもどしていると彼は説明する。 ハプスブルク家には遺伝的に唇の異常があり,〈Austrian lip〉といわれた。すなわち,カール5世は下顎が上顎をはるかに越えて突出していたため,老いて残った歯がかみ合わず,聞きとりやすい声でしゃべれなかった。…

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