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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Plastic surgery of the uvula and the soft palate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, an operation for restoring the soft palate when it is defective.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) The operation for restoring or replacing the soft palate when it has been lost.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surgery
Plastic surgery to replace or repair theuvula and thesoft palate .
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