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61cleft palate — a congenital defect of the palate in which a longitudinal fissure exists in the roof of the mouth. [1840 50] * * * Fairly common congenital disorder in which a fissure forms in the roof of the mouth. It may affect only the soft palate or extend… …
62Cleft chin murder — The cleft chin murder was a killing which occurred as part of a string of crimes during 1944, and referred to in George Orwell s essay Decline of the English Murder . It became known as the cleft chin murder because the murder victim, a taxi… …
63Cleft uvula — The uvula, the little V shaped fleshy mass hanging from the back of the soft palate, is cleft. . Cleft uvula is a common minor anomaly occurring in about 1% of whites and 10% of Native Americans. Persons with a cleft uvula should not have their… …
64cleft face — see lateral facial cleft and oblique facial cleft, under cleft …
65cleft palate — a fissure in the midline of the palate due to failure of the two sides to fuse in embryonic development. Only part of the palate may be affected, or the cleft may extend the full length with bilateral clefts at the front of the maxilla; it may be …
66cleft palate — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms cleft palate : singular cleft palate plural cleft palates a medical condition in which there is a narrow space inside someone s mouth at the top, so that it is difficult for them to speak clearly …
67cleft sentence — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms cleft sentence : singular cleft sentence plural cleft sentences linguistics a sentence that starts with a pronoun such as it or that and the verb to be in order to emphasize the next word, which is followed by… …
68cleft lip — harelip. * * * ▪ congenital disorder relatively common (one out of every 1,000 births) congenital deformity in which the central to medial lip fails to fuse properly during the first month of prenatal life, resulting in a fissure in the lip …
69cleft hand — a congenital anomaly of the hand in which the division between the fingers extends into the metacarpus; often there are just two large digits, one on either side of the cleft. Called also lobster claw h. or deformity, split h., split hand… …
70cleft lip — harelip the congenital deformity of a cleft in the upper lip, on one or both sides of the midline. It occurs when the three blocks of embryonic tissue that go to form the upper lip fail to fuse and it is often associated with a cleft palate.… …
