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cleft
(redirected from Gluteal cleft)

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cleft
1. a fissure or crevice
2. (of leaves) having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib


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The hub of the catheter was secured in the gluteal cleft, and the patient's features of sepsis improved over subsequent days.
Transcolonic pelvic abscess drainage by Beningfield, S.; Goldberg, P. / South African Journal of Radiology
This is a bit like a boil and is caused when a hair follicle at the base of the spine or in the gluteal cleft, (the bit that shows when big builders bend over) gets blocked by the hair in it.
Dear Doc by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
 
 
 
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