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Examples of cleft palate in a Sentence
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Most developmental defects happen in the first trimester of pregnancy; for example, cleft palate, a potentially debilitating birth defect, occurs sometime before week nine for reasons that scientists don’t yet understand.
—Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
Elliot’s mother had a bit of the hoarding tendencies evinced by his lead character, who grew up with a cleft palate.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2024
The infants had specific physical birth defects: cleft palate, unusually small heads, drooping eyelids, webbed toes and joints that weren’t fully developed.
—Erika Edwards, NBC News, 2 Aug. 2024
Even reconstructive surgery, such as fixing a cleft lip or cleft palate, was questionable.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1847, in the meaning defined above
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“Cleft palate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cleft%20palate. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
cleft palate
noun
: a split in the roof of the mouth that occurs as a birth defect
Medical Definition
cleft palate
noun
: congenital fissure of the roof of the mouth produced by failure of the two maxillae to unite during embryonic development and often associated with cleft lip
called also palatoschisis
More from Merriam-Webster on cleft palate
Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about cleft palate
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