cleft palate

That means Japanese whiskies are beautifully balanced and elegant; they touch and develop on every sensor on the palate.
Watch Out, Scotland! Japanese Whisky Is on the Rise|Kayleigh Kulp|November 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And your palate will change as you have new experiences and new selections in the wine world.
William Shatner Picks His Favorite Wines|William Shatner|July 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Oak, great balance and a good finish with stone fruits and just enough oak to round the wine to a silky smooth feel on the palate.
William Shatner Picks His Favorite Wines|William Shatner|July 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sans country and opera, there is something for most every musical palate at Bonnaroo.
Living by the Bonnaroo Code|Daniel G. Hill|June 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST

By 1987, however, the American palate was beginning to change.
Hillbilly Heaven: The History of Small-Batch Bourbon|Dane Huckelbridge|March 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The reading public was largely confined to young girls with the taste for romance fresh on the palate.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
He pretended that it was five hundred years' journey from one to another, and that he cleft the moon in twain.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10)|Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
So I even told her how he had gone over the edge into the cleft, but without saying that we feared for his life for so long.
A Prince of Cornwall|Charles W. Whistler
Thrice—De Valmont's guard shivered as a rush—through shield, hauberk, gorget cleft the Vikings' blade.
God Wills It!|William Stearns Davis
This one has a perforated palate, and this great copper-coloured patches on the forehead, all of them rickety.
The Nabob|Alphonse Daudet

British Dictionary definitions for cleft palate

cleft palate

noun

a congenital crack or fissure in the midline of the hard palate, often associated with a harelip

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Medical definitions for cleft palate

cleft palate

A congenital fissure in the roof of the mouth, resulting from incomplete fusion of the palate during embryonic development. It may involve only the uvula or extend through the entire palate.palatoschisis

Scientific definitions for cleft palate

cleft palate

Incomplete closure of the palate during development of an embryo, resulting in a split along part or all of the roof of the mouth.