cleft lip
- noun
- /klɛft lɪp/
- Specialized
- I guess because I was born with a cleft lip and palate.
- cleft lip and palate
- cleft lip and palate repair
- children with cleft lip
And this is her take on cleft lip.
- And this is her take on cleft lip.
Examples
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Patient C was born with a cleft lip and palate and was found to have pronounced hypermethioninaemia on neonatal screening.
Academic text (1991) -
Thank you very much for your idea. I do agree with you, but data for the prevalence of cleft lip and palate in India are available.
Academic text (2016) -
When I report that I have repaired eighteen cleft lips without a complication, my wife seems proud of me.
Fiction book (2000) -
Children were excluded if their parents reported that the child had a persistent hearing loss, cleft lip/palate, or a developmental delay.
Academic text (2015) -
Particular attention was devoted to the presence of clefting, which was divided into two main groups: cleft lip and palate, and isolated cleft palate.
Academic text (2015) -
Multifactorial disorders often express as diabetes, cleft lip and palate, schizophrenia, spina bifida, and congenital hip dislocation.
Academic text (2005) -
Every year, 35,000 children in India are born with a cleft lip or palate.
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Plus, all three were born with a cleft lip and one with a cleft palate.
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The baby was a healthy girl, charming in spite of a cleft lip.
Synonyms
A split in the middle of the upper lip that a baby has from birth
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'cleft' means a split and 'lip' names the mouth edge, so a learner who knows both words can infer a split in the lip. Although it is a medical term, the constituent meanings map straightforwardly and similar compounds exist in many languages, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Cleft lip comes from the word cleft (a 'split') and lip, describing a baby born with an opening in the upper lip. So it means 'a split in the lip from birth'.