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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A congenital deformity characterized by a vertical cleft or pair of clefts in the upper lip, with or without involvement of the palate.
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- noun teratology
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- noun a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip
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