cleft
81cleft palate prosthesis — a prosthetic device, such as an obturator, used to correct cleft palate. See also speech aid p., and artificial palate, under palate …
82cleft palate speech — dysphasia due to a cleft palate, often characterized by hypernasality, difficulty with fricatives, and other problems due to velopharyngeal insufficiency …
83cleft sternum — a developmental defect in which the sternum is longitudinally fissured as a result of incomplete fusion of the cartilaginous sternal bars. Called also sternal cleft …
84cleft lip — noun a congenital split in the upper lip on one or both sides of the centre, often associated with a cleft palate …
85cleft graft — /klɛft ˈgraft/ (say kleft grahft) noun the insertion of the wedge shaped base of a scion into a cleft at the top of a stock …
86cleft — a slit like opening, e.g. the interruption in the thickened lower lip in Catostomidae …
87cleft — adj. [A.S. cleofian, split] Split or forked …
88cleft — noun an opening, fissure, or V shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting See Also: cleave, cleavage, cleaver …
89cleft — Synonyms and related words: abysm, abyss, alienation, aperture, arroyo, bifurcated, bisected, blaze, box canyon, branched, branching, breach, breach of friendship, break, breakage, broaching, burst, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney,… …
90cleft — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. split, rift, fissure, crack, crevice. See interval. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. split, rent, parted; see separated , torn . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. opening, crack, crevice, break, gap, chink …
