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facial cleft — 1. any of the clefts between the embryonic prominences that normally unite to form the face. 2. failure of union of a facial cleft, which, depending on its site, causes such developmental defects as cleft cheek, cleft lip, cleft mandible, oblique … Medical dictionary
cleft face — see lateral facial cleft and oblique facial cleft, under cleft … Medical dictionary
cleft — A fissure. anal c. SYN: intergluteal c.. branchial clefts a bilateral series of slitlike openings into the pharynx through which water is drawn by aquatic animals; in the walls of the clefts are the vascular gill filaments that … Medical dictionary
prosoposchisis — Congenital facial cleft from mouth to the inner canthus of the eye. SYN: oblique facial cleft. [prosopo + G. schisis, fissure] * * * pros·o·pos·chi·sis (pros″o posґkĭ sis) facial cleft (def. 2) … Medical dictionary
macrostomia — Abnormally large size of the mouth resulting from failure of fusion between the maxillary and mandibular processes of the embryonic face. [macro + G. stoma, mouth] * * * mac·ro·sto·mia .mak rə stō mē ə n 1) the … Medical dictionary
prosopoanoschisis — SYN: facial cleft. [prosopo + G. ano, upward, + schisis, fissure] * * * pros·o·po·an·os·chi·sis (pros″o po ə nosґkĭ sis) oblique facial cleft … Medical dictionary
meloschisis — Congenital cleft in the face. [G. melon, cheek, + schisis, a cleaving] * * * me·los·chi·sis (mə losґkĭ sis) [melo 2 + schisis] oblique facial cleft … Medical dictionary
cheilognathoprosoposchisis — chei·lo·gnatho·pros·o·pos·chi·sis (ki″lo na″tho pros″o posґkĭ sis) [cheilo + gnatho + prosoposchisis] a congenital anomaly consisting of an oblique facial cleft continuing into the lip and upper jaw … Medical dictionary
List of diseases (O) — A list of diseases in the English wikipedia.O Ob* O Doherty syndrome * O Donnell Pappas syndrome * Obesity * Obesophobia * Obsessive compulsive disorder * Obstructive asymmetric septal hypertrophy * Obstructive sleep apneaOcOcc Och* Occipital… … Wikipedia
syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… … Medical dictionary
