2. Philtrum

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This is that little area that lies between your nose and upper lip. It seems practical that medical specialists might need to know this word, plastic surgeons for instance. For the rest of us, well, we cannot recall a single instance in life where any of us has ever been grappling for that word. “Bill, I just thought you’d want to know you have a little bit of snot dangling from your philtrum.”