How to Use cleft palate in a Sentence
cleft palate
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Her third child was born with a cleft palate and bone age delay.
—Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic, 17 Jan. 2023
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Clefts have likely been around for a long time; just look at King Tut, who suffered from a partial cleft palate.
—Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2021
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About half of all living bat species have cleft palates—a feature that may be tied to bat echolocation.
—Riley Black, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
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Others had eye problems, ear problems, a cleft palate, no toes.
—Katie Thomas, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2020
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Or the dentist who arranged to fix a 9-year-old girl's cleft palate and straightened her teeth with orthodontic work.
—Karina Bland, azcentral, 23 Nov. 2019
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Reuters/Kham Ryan Le Blanc got his first dose of opioids at three months old, after surgery for a unilateral cleft palate.
—Doug Johnson, Quartz, 3 Nov. 2019
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MacKenzie was born in Hilton, New York, with a cleft palate and spent the first year of her life being fed through a tube and battling several bouts of pneumonia.
—Marika Gerken, CNN, 24 Oct. 2020
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The boy pharaoh Tutankhamen, who died around 1324 BC, suffered from a host of conditions including a club foot and cleft palate, but malaria was likely what killed him.
—Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
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So are cleft lips, sometimes accompanied by cleft palate.
—New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
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One in 700 babies are born with either (or both) a cleft lip and cleft palate, which occurs when the lip or mouth doesn’t properly fuse during early pregnancy.
—Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2021
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Santa Cristina García, 20, migrated to pay for her younger sister’s cleft palate surgery.
—Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
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Exposure to the poison can cause many diseases, from 20 forms of cancer to Type 2 diabetes and serious birth defects like cleft palates and club feet.
—Steven V. Roberts, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
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Valproic acid also increased the risk of seven other birth defects, including cleft palate and four types of heart defects.
—Susan Scutti, CNN, 12 June 2019
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While repairing my cleft palate, the surgeon had mistakenly sewn closed my nasal passages.
—Kavita Das, Longreads, 29 Jan. 2018
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The hospital came to Indianapolis in 1869, and was one of the first in the country to treat a variety of congenital deformities like cleft palate, club foot and more.
—Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2022
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The two were quick to jump into supporting a joint cause, lending their star power to the #Search4Smiles campaign to benefit the nonprofit Smile Train, which provides free cleft palate surgeries to those in need.
—Jolene Latimer, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2023
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Other Chinese are more willing to adopt children with treatable conditions like cleft palates.
—The Economist, 6 June 2020
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During her time there, the model mom visited the homes of patients recovering from cleft palate or cleft lip procedures.
—Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
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Jacquetta was born with birth defects that prevented her from breathing, swallowing, or crying on her own, as well as a cleft palate and lip and deformities to one of her eyes and one hand.
—Jamie Ducharme, Time, 16 Nov. 2022
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Results here suggested a link between the two antibiotics and several birth defects, such as anopthamalia (the absence of one or both eyes), a condition that affects blood flow through the heart, and cleft lip with cleft palate.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 18 Jan. 2018
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Bright Beginnings had Tyesha assessed and determined the cleft palate affected her speech.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
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The nuns and nurses face a variety of challenging issues such as interracial adoption, cleft palate and sickle cell.
—Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2019
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Initial exams indicate the cub suffered from severe birth defects, including a cleft palate, according to the zoo.
—David Caraccio, sacbee, 15 May 2018
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But [the child] also had spina bifida, scoliosis, a cleft palate that exposed her brain through her eye sockets, her brain had never developed past 8 weeks, and there was fluid in her brain.
—Danielle Corcione, Teen Vogue, 22 Jan. 2018
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Cleft lip and cleft palate result when facial structures that are developing in an unborn baby don’t close completely.
—Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 5 Apr. 2020
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The symptoms and effects, which can include heart defects, learning disabilities, hearing loss and cleft palate, involve different parts of the body and vary in severity.
—Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2019
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Yet, past studies have linked fevers to a variety of birth defects, including cleft lip or cleft palate, certain types of heart defects, and neural tube defects commonly called spina bifida.
—Susan Scutti, CNN, 10 Oct. 2017
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The campaign also donates up to $1 million to Operation Smile, an organization that provides safe surgeries for children with cleft lip and cleft palate.
—Nisa Khan, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2020
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The mother of five, 48, recently traveled to Lima, Peru in support of Smile Train, a nonprofit organization that provides cleft palate treatments for children across the globe.
—Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
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Seymour has been ostracized for his behavioral tics, Omeir for his cleft palate, Anna for her rebelliousness, and Konstance for her curiosity.
—BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
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