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cleft lip
(redirected from Cleft lip and palate)

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cleft lip [¦kleft ′lip]
(medicine)


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Cleft lip and palate collectively make up the most common birth defect in the United States, said Nancy Smythe, executive director of the Cleft Palate Association.
They had developed a close bond over the past nine years, since Samarrai performed the first of eight surgeries that turned the cleft lip and palate that Paige had been born with into a beautiful smile.
At birth, a term, male infant was noted to have multiple congenital abnormalities, including cleft lip and palate and a mass on the left side of his tongue (figure 1).
 
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