A cleft is an opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation.
Cleft may refer to:
Anatomy
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Cleft lip and palate
A cleft lip contains an opening in the upper lip that may extend into the nose. The opening may be on one side, both sides, or in the middle. A cleft palate occurs when the palate (the roof of the mouth) contains an opening into the nose. The ...
, a congenital deformity
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Cleft chin
The chin is the forward pointed part of the anterior mandible ( mental region) below the lower lip. A fully developed human skull has a chin of between 0.7 cm and 1.1 cm.
Evolution
The presence of a well-developed chin is considered to be one ...
, a dimple on the chin
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Pudendal cleft
In primates, and specifically in humans, the labia majora (: labium majus), also known as the outer lips or outer labia, are two prominent longitudinal skin folds that extend downward and backward from the mons pubis to the perineum. Together wi ...
, part of the vulva
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Intergluteal cleft
The intergluteal cleft or just gluteal cleft, also known by a number of synonyms, including natal cleft and cluneal cleft, is the groove between the buttocks that runs from just below the sacrum to the perineum, so named because it forms the vis ...
, the groove between the buttocks
Fiction
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The Cleft'', a 2007 novel by Nobel prize laureate Doris Lessing
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Cleft, the Boy Chin Wonder, a character in ''The Fairly Odd Parents''
Linguistics
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Cleft sentence
A cleft sentence is a complex sentence (one having a main clause and a dependent clause) that has a meaning that could be expressed by a simple sentence. Clefts typically put a particular Constituent (linguistics), constituent into Focus (linguisti ...
, a type of grammatical construction
Places
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Cleft Island (Antarctica)
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Cleft Island (Victoria)
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Cleft Ledge
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Cleft Point
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Cleft Peak
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Cleft Rock
See also
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Cleave (disambiguation), the present tense of the past participle "cleft"
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Clef (disambiguation)
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