cleft palate

Noun

Meaning

a congenital fissure of the hard palate

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

monstrosity deformation deformity malformation disfigurement defacement splayfoot harelip wryneck cleft lip knock-knee lordosis soft palate teratology swayback

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Antonyms

beauty charisma

Hypernyms

birth defect congenital disorder congenital abnormality congenital anomaly congenital defect

Examples

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate. Chaz Bono

Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion. Norma McCorvey

My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate. Gale Gordon

A cleft palate is an abnormal opening in the roof of the mouth. Source: Internet

Dietary supplements of folic acid prior to pregnancy have been found to reduce the number of cases of spina bifida and are also implicated in prevention of cleft palate and some cardiac defects. Source: Internet

He was born with a cleft palate and underwent corrective surgery twice during childhood. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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