Thesaurus / cleft
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Treatable diagnoses, such as cleft lip, are distinct from diagnoses pertaining to severely disabled newborns.
I'M A DOCTOR WHO CARES FOR NEWBORNS. I’M NERVOUS AFTER THE END OF ROERACHEL FLEISHMANJULY 8, 2022TIMEHad the slope been mellower, Lewis could have hopped on one leg, but the route traveled through standing timber, around downed trees, across rocky clefts, and through small subalpine finger meadows.
COLD, ALONE, AND IN PAINFRED DREIERJANUARY 12, 2022OUTSIDE ONLINEMessages pass between one cell and onto the next by floating across the space between — a gap called the synaptic cleft.
EXPLAINER: WHAT IS A NEURON?BRYN ST. CLAIRAPRIL 22, 2021SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSHe pretended that it was five hundred years' journey from one to another, and that he cleft the moon in twain.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)So I even told her how he had gone over the edge into the cleft, but without saying that we feared for his life for so long.
A PRINCE OF CORNWALLCHARLES W. WHISTLERThrice—De Valmont's guard shivered as a rush—through shield, hauberk, gorget cleft the Vikings' blade.
GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVISPoint a pitying finger to the yawning abyss of shame, ruin, and despair that even now perhaps is being cleft under his feet.
ERIC, OR LITTLE BY LITTLEFREDERIC W. FARRARBut a single effective shot into the centre of the column had cleft it as a rock divides a torrent.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FORESTThis and the peculiar notched or cleft teeth seem to point to an hereditary taint.
SPANISH LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRYL. HIGGIN AND EUGNE E. STREETSeveral times the sun seemed to set, only to reappear again through a cleft in the hills.
DAVID LANNARCK, MIDGETGEORGE S. HARNEYWORDS RELATED TO CLEFT
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