- Look up
cleft in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
cleft is an opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation.
Cleft may
refer to:
Cleft lip and palate, a...
-
cleft lip
contains an
opening in the
upper lip that may
extend into the nose. The
opening may be on one side, both sides, or in the middle. A
cleft palate...
- The
intergluteal cleft or just
gluteal cleft, also
known by a
number of synonyms,
including natal cleft and
cluneal cleft, is the
groove between the buttocks...
- the
vagus nerve. A
bifid or
bifurcated uvula is a
split or
cleft uvula.
Newborns with
cleft palate often also have a
split uvula. The
bifid uvula results...
- An
intercellular cleft is a
channel between two
cells through which molecules may
travel and gap
junctions and
tight junctions may be present. Most notably...
-
facial cleft is an
opening or gap in the face, or a
malformation of a part of the face.
Facial clefts is a
collective term for all
sorts of
clefts. All...
- A
cleft sentence is a
complex sentence (one
having a main
clause and a
dependent clause) that has a
meaning that
could be
expressed by a
simple sentence...
-
constitute the
lateral boundaries of the
pudendal cleft. The
pudendal cleft, also
known as the ****r
cleft or
cleft of
Venus (rima ****e or rima
pudendi in Latin)...
- include:
cleft lip [CL]
cleft lip and
alveolus [CLA]
cleft lip, alveolus, and
palate [CLAP]
cleft lip and
palate (with an
intact alveolus) [CLP]
cleft palate...
- Ectrodactyly,
split hand, or
cleft hand (from
Ancient Gr**** ἔκτρωμα (ektroma) 'miscarriage' and δάκτυλος (daktylos) 'finger')
involves the deficiency...
