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harelip |
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harelip, congenital abnormality in which there is a cleft or split in the upper lip. There may be a single opening in the middle portion of the lip or an opening on each side. The condition frequently occurs along with a cleft palate cleft palate, incomplete fusion of bones of the palate. The cleft may be confined to the soft palate at the back of the mouth; it may include the hard palate, or roof of the mouth; or it may extend through the gum and lip, producing a gap in the teeth and a cleft ..... Click the link for more information. , an opening in the roof of the mouth. Harelip is usually corrected by plastic surgery soon after birth. |
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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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