cleft palate
Noun
Meaning
a congenital fissure of the hard palate
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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.
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.
My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
A cleft palate is an abnormal opening in the roof of the mouth.
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.
He was born with a cleft palate and underwent corrective surgery twice during childhood.