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cleft
(redirected from cleft lip)

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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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During the May trip to Tena, a city of about 20,000 in the Amazon rain forest, surgeons corrected cleft lip and palate deformities for children in outlying villages.
I didn't know that I would give birth to a baby with a birth defect, a cleft lip and palate.
This associates the cervical cleft with other midline clefts such as cleft lip and cleft palate, which are caused by a failure of fusion of the first branchial arch.
 
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