cleft palate
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orofacial cleft characterized by a fissure of the soft and/or hard palate, due to faulty fusion of the two plates of the skull that form the hard palate
Research
35,329 papers- Cleft Palate.Clinics in plastic surgery · 2025
- Cleft palate repair.Problems in veterinary medicine · 1991
- Fetal Cleft Lip and Palate.Obstetrics and gynecology · 2026
- Cleft lip and palate.Otolaryngologic clinics of North America · 2000
- Cleft Palate Repair, Gingivoperiosteoplasty, and Alveolar Bone Grafting.Facial plastic surgery clinics of North America · 2016
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- cleft lip and cleft palate
- Image
- Baby girl with cleft palate, smiling.jpg
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C87069
- exact match
- www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_99772
- health specialty
- medical genetics
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- ICD-9-CM
- 749.00
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- Commons category
- Cleft palate
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