ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Clefting

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Clefting is a noun meaning (medicine) The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate.

Meaning

(medicine) The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate.

More Meanings

  1. (linguistics) The formation of a cleft sentence.
  2. present participle and gerund of cleft

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scissure, fissure, crack, crevice, divided, bisulcate.

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