cleft
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Both women agree that seeing more people with a cleft lip in the public eye would help young people with the condition.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
It affects one in every 700 babies born in the UK and surgery to close the cleft is typically given when a baby is three to six months old.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
They have looked into the use of dermal fillers for people with a cleft, the people who provide them, what experiences and qualifications they have, and how these fillers are being marketed to the community.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
After completing extra training she now works with non-profit organisation CleftInject, which help adults with scarring from cleft lip surgery find aesthetic practitioners who understand the condition.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
A short distance away, a clear spring trickled from a cleft rock, and the grass was full of game.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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
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