cleft
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Her daughter was born early with a cleft palate, facial symptoms of sodium valproate syndrome as well as ADHD.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The medical term for my ailment is an asymmetrical gluteal cleft, though requests to fix it are far less common than those to eliminate cellulite, flatten the tummy, or augment the breasts.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026
Reported problems include spina bifida, cleft palate, and a range of intellectual, communication, behavior and memory disorders.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2025
She’s desperate to find a refuge for herself, “a cleft in the rock of the world” that she could hide in, as she tells him after her secrets have been exposed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
“He’s from Bangladesh. He has a cleft lip and palate. His parents sent him here to have surgery. He doesn’t speak any English.”
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
The timing of when DNA methylation occurs, was critical to the development of orofacial clefts.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2024
Holes, slits and clefts are common, surrounded by clay inscribed with organic patterns.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
The protein is large and globular, and it doesn’t have deep pockets or clefts on its surface where a drug could slip in.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2021
They communicate across infinitesimal gaps known as synaptic clefts.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2018
Pushing myself, continually out of breath, I scurried up and to the left, across small snowfields linked by ice-choked clefts and short rock steps.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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