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What is "cleft palate"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cleft palate
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Guang Qiu, now 21, born with a cleft palate came as a small baby.
▪ Katya was born with a bilateral hare lip and cleft palate.
▪ Once here he will have an operation to repair a cleft palate by plastic surgeon Charles Viva.
Wiktionary
cleft palate

n. (context teratology English) An abnormal condition in which the two plates of the skull that form the hard palate (roof of the mouth) are not completely joined.

WordNet
cleft palate

n. a congenital fissure of the hard palate

Usage examples of "cleft palate".

He had the snout-like upper lip that sometimes goes with a cleft palate, but he said nothing and Bond had no opportunity of knowing whether his guess was right.

Kapernaumov is a lame man with a cleft palate and all of his numerous family have cleft palates too.

Despite the cleft palate and the skin ailment that made her face like the scaly back of a fish, she could come closest to stirring him.

Lincoln chattering away about plans for the evening, 12-year-old Tad of the cleft palate lisping a complaint that ``nobody asked me to go,'' and young Robert Lincoln, just returned from duty, bubbling with stories about his hero Ulysses Grant and the last days of the war.