cleft

[US]/kleft/
[UK]/kleft/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. split; divided
n. a crack or fissure
v. split; separate (past tense and past participle of cleave)

Phrases & Collocations

cleft palate

cleft chin

cleft lip

cleft stick

Example Sentences

Median cleft lip: mild and subtle hypotelorism, flat nose, and median cleft lip with or without cleft palate.

incisure A notch, fissure or cleft in a bone.

Cleft-grafting of green budwood is also successful.

Their baby had an operation to repair a cleft palate.

Bone grafting of the alveolus is an essential step in the reconstruction of the orofacial cleft deformity.

Objective To evaluate the effect of model of triunity speech training in promoting speech development of children with cleft palate.

Carpophore bifid at apex, cleft up to 1/2 of its length.

the type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which incudes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx.

Most of the thyroglussal duct cyst and branchial cleft cyst were monolocular, while lymphangioma was multilocular.

Objective To find an objective index to describe the severity of hypernasality in cleft palate patients through speech spectroanalysis.

mosses having costate leaves and long-stalked capsules with cleft peristome.

Objective To explore the effect of myringotomy with insertion of tube and tympanocentesis on alleviating secretory otitis media(SOM) and hearing loss in cleft palate infants.

I was in a cleft stick—my job was boring but I couldn’t move to another firm without losing my company pension.

Hay-Wells Syndrome (HWS), also known as the ankyloblepharon-ectodermal dysplasia-clefting (AEC) syndrome, is one of at least 150 known types of ectodermal dysplasia.

Short term tolerance can be caused by depleted levels of neurotransmitters within the vesicles available for release into the synaptic cleft following subsequent reuse (tachyphylaxis).

Real-world Examples

Her cleft procedure was done a while ago.

Source: VOA Standard English - Health

You could have cleft sentences which we use for emphasis.

Source: Tips for IELTS Speaking.

There's some very very good local surgeons who are doing large volumes of cleft surgery.

Source: VOA Standard English - Health

Also, fibrillations form, essentially these cracks or clefts, on what used to be a smooth articular surface.

Source: Osmosis - Musculoskeletal

People born with a cleft lip or palate may have difficulty speaking and eating.

Source: VOA Special English Health

She said that God created her boy with a cleft lip.

Source: VOA Special English Health

Some of them cleft the rocks with great axes; others grabbled in the sand.

Source: Selected Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde

It involves ante-inferior part of middle ear cleft and is associated with a central perforation.

Source: Daily Life Medical Science Popularization

Oh, there it is right there. On his pituitary. It's a rathke's cleft cyst.

Source: Grey's Anatomy Season 2

In the cleft of a great oak-tree he saw the piece of white gold that he was seeking.

Source: New Concept English: Vocabulary On-the-Go, Book Three.

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