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Three-month-old Sana, the youngest baby on the ward, has malnutrition, acute diarrhoea and a cleft lip.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2025

Schimberg, who became friends with Pearson during “Chained for Life,” also drew from his own experience with a cleft palate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024

He had the darkest eyelashes I’ve ever seen, short and tidy fingernails, and a cleft chin that could fit a Canadian loonie.

From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2024

“It certainly happened to me,” said Schimberg, who has a cleft palate.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024

And the birds which spent the day in the brushland came at night to the little pools that were like steps in the mountain cleft.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck

The timing of when DNA methylation occurs, was critical to the development of orofacial clefts.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2024

Although it only covers about three square miles, the coastline is so ragged with “geos” — deep clefts in cliffs — that walking the circumference takes longer than you might think.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021

The protein is large and globular, and it doesn’t have deep pockets or clefts on its surface where a drug could slip in.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2021

They communicate across infinitesimal gaps known as synaptic clefts.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2018

The horses had drunk their fill of the icy cold water, and were grazing on clumps of brown grass that grew from clefts in the rock.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin