Chaz Bono

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

American Celebrity

Nadiya Hussain

As a child my life felt like an adventure, because my dad is such a fun guy. I had a brother and sister who were in and out of hospital a lot – one had a congenital heart problem and the other had a cleft palate. But my parents never stopped smiling.

British Chef

Lady Gregory

There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!

Irish Dramatist

Alice Dreger

Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair.

American Scientist

Joe Murray

Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.

American Artist

Norma McCorvey

Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.

Freddie Fox

People want to see me as a posh square, so I'll play an East End drag queen or a young man with a cleft palate.

English Actor

Anne Lamott

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

American Author

Use 'cleft' to describe natural openings in geographical features.

Physical Landforms

'Cleft' usually suggests a narrow, sometimes deep split.

Narrow Opening

'Cleft' often implies a natural formation, not something made by humans.

Not Man-Made

'Cleft' as an adjective describes objects designed to hold or secure something else.

Holding Tool

'Cleft' can refer to specific traits in animals, like hooves.

Animal Characteristics

The adjective 'cleft' can indicate a natural state of being split.

Inherent Split

In medicine, 'cleft' refers to a congenital split in the lip or palate.

Medical Condition

Discussing a 'cleft' in medical contexts often involves talk of surgery or correction.

Surgery and Repair

A 'cleft palate' can affect a person's ability to speak clearly.

Speech Impact

 where this technology was used to support the provision of cleft lip and palate surgery to children, children from poor backgrounds who didn't have access to health insurance. And in this town, there was a hospital with one surgeon working hard to provide this care, Dr. Soraya. Now, Dr. Soraya was struggling under the sheer demand

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 get into your question now but it looks like it's mass there's a split you see that between its trunk and its mouth almost like it's got a cleft palate that's really interesting I've never seen that in my life before it's not its mouth its mouth is lowered down by the looks of things and just now there was a

Introducing a New Baby...

 I'm thinking, albinism was so easy, this is going to be rough. But I went to San Antonio, walked down to the auditorium where the kids and young adults were, opened the door, and I was instantly surrounded by kids screaming with laughter. There were kids with cleft palates, kids with mobility issues,

Rick Guidotti: From...

 And where it's landing to bring the twigs to the cliff, its feathers brushes the rock -- and it had cut the rock six to eight inches in. There was a cleft in the rock by the brushing of the feathers of generations of the birds. So he said, "All right. I get the point." He went back.

Robert Thurman:...

 Now I might say the noise problem could also occur on the basis of information provided in the world from the ears. If any -- those of you who are older in the audience know that when I was a child we understood that a child born with a cleft palate

Michael Merzenich:...

 story her profiles reveal the existence of complex geography of crevices metallic but perhaps most startling was the emergence of a long v-shaped cleft that ran through each of her profiles these so-called risk valleys offered support

How One Brilliant Woman...

 perfectly round ceramic bowl in another place we came upon this tapir jaw left in the cleft of a tree a kind of totem perhaps we weren't sure but these are the signs that make up the lifeblood of

The Unconquered:...

 which is amazing for all genders. We can tattoo eyebrows, belly buttons, toenails. We can improve the appearance of a cleft lip. We can separate webbed toes. The possibilities are endless.

The Restorative Power of...

 to offer plastic surgery to those who need it. Children with cleft palates get it, and they document their story. This is wonderful. I am not that caring. I talk about myself.

Mena Trott: How blogs...

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Cleft

A split or opening in something, especially one that is long and narrow.

Often appears as...

Split or divided in two.

Often appears as...

A condition where the upper lip or roof of the mouth is split.

Often appears as...

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Narrow Opening

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