(a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.
(n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock.
(n.) A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.
(n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intraepidermal clefting starts at the junction between the basal and epidermal layers, and later involves all of the levels of the stratum spinosum.
(2) Closure of both cleft spaces by orthodontic means was achieved in 20 of the 21 patients in the first group, and in 14 of the 20 patients in the second group.
(3) In the absence of prostigmine, increasing the concentration of ACh in the synaptic cleft did not change the time constant for decay of end-plate currents.
(4) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(5) Three different structures have been observed among the binding proteins: unliganded 'open cleft', liganded 'open cleft', and liganded 'closed cleft'.
(6) Retrognathia or retrusion of the maxilla and mid-face is present in about one-third of treated cleft palate patients.
(7) At S-L clefts, paranodal-nodal regions, and Schwann cell nuclei, the axonal areas were smaller and the NF densities were higher than at compact myelinated regions.
(8) Cleft palate was found in 98.1% of fetuses in the positive control group and none of them in the negative control group.
(9) Recent reports have indicated the usefulness of nuclear grooves (clefts or notches) as an additional criterion for the diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma in fine needle aspirates; most of these studies were carried out on alcohol-fixed material stained with the Papanicolaou stain or with hematoxylin and eosin, which yield good nuclear details.
(10) The question of how the contraction of adjacent endothelial cells might widen the intercellular clefts and thus regulate permeability is discussed.
(11) An examination of 9720 Zagreb school children, 6-13 years of age, revealed submucous cleft palate (SMCP) in 5 and cleft uvula in 232.
(12) These factors include narrowing of septal arteries and the artery to the atrioventricular node, preservation of fetal anatomy with dispersion in the atrioventricular node and His bundle, fibrosis of the sinus node, clefts in the septum, multiple atrioventricular pathways and massive myocardial infarction.
(13) Although maternal ingestion of antiepileptic drugs is strongly suspected of causing congenital defects, particularly oral clefts, the effect of epilepsy itself or a combined effect of drug intake and epilepsy have not been excluded as etiological factors.
(14) To clarify the mechanism by which retinoid causes cleft palate, we investigated the effect of retinoic acid (RA) on proliferation activity and glycosaminoglycan (GAG) synthesis in mouse fetuses palatal mesenchymal (MFPM) cells.
(15) The blood lymphocytes were small with scanty cytoplasm, densely condensed nuclear chromatin, and deep clefts originating in sharp angles from the nuclear surface.
(16) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
(17) In the following, there will be indicated the approved techniques and methods of suturing the cleft palate and a new method will be discussed related to the reciprocal Z-type plastic operation.
(18) Fifty per cent of the children with clefts of the palate and lip had deviated nasal septum producing nasal obstruction.
(19) A family is reported of 500 facial cleft index cases, attendees for plastic surgery review at hospitals in northern England.
(20) An infant with a complete unilateral cleft of the lip and palate underwent maxillary expansion treatment using an oral orthopedic appliance.
Dimple
Definition:
(n.) A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin.
(n.) A slight indentation on any surface.
(v. i.) To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.
(v. t.) To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions.
Example Sentences:
(1) He used the internal mammary artery pedicle (Kolesov's pedicle, Feb. 25, 1964) and described beadlike nodules and a dimpling of the epicardium over the atherosclerotic coronary artery (Kolesov's groove sign, Jan. 26, 1965).
(2) It was transplanted ventral to the puborectalis sling into the anal dimple if present.
(3) A boy with growth and mental retardation, flat occiput, high and broad forehead, blepharoptosis, narrow palpebral fissures, low set, malformed ears, short neck, anal atresia, deep sacral dimple is reported.
(4) The majority of the thalamic neurones discharged by Group I muscle afferents responded with a latency shorter than 1 msec to electrical stimulation of the cerebral cortex in the region of the post-cruciate dimple.
(5) Assessment of Holloway's chimpanzee data supports my claim that the dimple on the Taung endocast is within the chimpanzee range for the medial end of the lunate sulcus.
(6) The mass was associated with a "double dimple sign," heretofore reported only in malignant renal tumors.
(7) Ependymal cell rests of the sacrococcygeal area are relatively common; they may occur in association with postcoccygeal (pilonidal) dimples or in the absence of observable abnormalities.
(8) Axial and coronal CT of the skull base and nose demonstrated a midline bony canal extending from two dimples on the dorsum of the patient's nose to the base of the anterior cranial fossa.
(9) It is shown that by proper selection of the substrate length, width, and thickness, silicon substrates can be designed and used to penetrate a variety of biological tissues without breakage or excessive dimpling.
(10) Clinical manifestations included postnatal growth and psychomotor retardation, microcephaly, hirsute forehead, epicanthic folds, strabismus, depressed nasal bridge, long philtrum, small mouth, tetralogy of Fallot, and sacral dimple.
(11) At long-term follow-up, local capsular thickening related to a surface dimple was seen at the puncture site in 66%, and fine cortical scars were visible in 33%.
(12) Visual correction, as described by Rene Cailliet, uses three anatomical points of reference: a) iliac crest levelness, b) vertical appraisal of the spine from the sacral base (the spine should be perpendicular to the sacral base) and c) levelness of the posterosuperior iliac spine (PSIS) dimples.
(13) At these sites a dimpling occurs as the cornea is enlarging.
(14) Physical examination showed flattening of the buttocks, loss of the gluteal cleft, widely spaced buttock dimples, and a palpable sacral defect.
(15) We present a dysmorphic syndrome in eight males of the same family (four brothers, three cousins and one uncle) that is characterised by: mental retardation, facial dysmorphia, abnormal growth of teeth, skin dimple at the lower back, clinodactyly, patella luxation, malformation of lower limbs, abnormalities of the fundus of the eye and subcortical cerebral atrophy.
(16) In 82.3% of the cases, the projection of the dimple, the rest of the tricuspid orifice, was located either on the ventricular septum or over the left ventricle.
(17) These modifications involve the use of a radiused edge on the dimpling tool, a rubber O-ring on the polishing tool, and not rotating the sample platen during polishing.
(18) Using the muscle flaps for double-breasted sutures realigns the orbicularis oris muscle fibers to achieve an anatomical and functional repair that is characterized by a symmetrical lip length, nostrils, philtral column, and philtral dimple.
(19) A braze alloy is used to join the sections of the sample together and the resulting sample is stable during subsequent grinding, dimpling, and milling operations.
(20) The other Schwann cell membranes exhibit P-face dimples and E-face (extracellular membrane half-leaflet) protuberances which may reflect endo- or exocytotic activity; alternatively they may represent caveolae.