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cleft

[kleft] / klɛft /




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Waiting lists for gynae mesh, children's squints, children's feeding tubes and cleft lip will also be tackled.

From BBC Jun. 2, 2025

Schimberg, who became friends with Pearson during “Chained for Life,” also drew from his own experience with a cleft palate.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2024

He had the darkest eyelashes I’ve ever seen, short and tidy fingernails, and a cleft chin that could fit a Canadian loonie.

From Slate Dec. 17, 2024

The model will allow them to rapidly screen thousands of dietary and environmental factors in a laboratory dish before testing the impact of specific factors on cleft susceptibility in mouse models.

From Science Daily Jan. 22, 2024

Now, on the witness stand, he held his hard-billed captain’s hat between his fingers, crossed his arms over his barrel chest, and pointed his cleft chin at Nels Gudmundsson, who wavered unsteadily before him, blinking.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

The timing of when DNA methylation occurs, was critical to the development of orofacial clefts.

From Science Daily Jan. 22, 2024

Although it only covers about three square miles, the coastline is so ragged with “geos” — deep clefts in cliffs — that walking the circumference takes longer than you might think.

From Washington Post Dec. 16, 2021

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

The horses had drunk their fill of the icy cold water, and were grazing on clumps of brown grass that grew from clefts in the rock.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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