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cleft 1. a fissure or crevice 2. (of leaves) having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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