How To Use Cleft In A Sentence

Besides that, there flourished some tufts of velvety grass, some scattered reeds, two plants of the yellow herb called tansy, four of a red flower, and a pretty white one; but the treasures of the rock consisted of three roots of garlic, which Maie had put in a cleft. The Lilac Fairy Book
The image of him was quickly fading from Kathleen's mind, but she remembered his firm chin, with a decided cleft down its middle.
He prefers the Teifi coracle because he likes working with cleft wild woods such as willow, hazel and ash rather than pre-sawn materials.
These roadless hills have always been a refuge for rogues and reivers, a lawless area in times past where cattle-rustlers would hide their stolen beasts in secret clefts and hollows.
And both mouths, while generously proportioned, carried the impression of girlish sweetness and chastity along with the muscles that could draw the lips to the firmness and harshness that would not give the lie to the square, uncleft chins beneath. CHAPTER IX

Accumulation of the neurotransmitters in the synaptic cleft occurs provoking an increase in the stimulation of postsynaptic receptors. 3 Cocaine Toxicity
In company with this nerve will be seen the posterior saphena vein, L, which, commencing behind the outer ankle, ascends the mesial line of the calf to join the popliteal vein, G, in the cleft between the heads of the gastrocnemius. Surgical Anatomy
Short in proportion to the Corolla tho wide or bulky; the Style is very long or longer than the stamens, simple, cilindrical, bowed or bent upwards, placed on the top of the germ, membranous shrivels and falls off when the pericarp has obtained it's full Size. the Stigma is three clefts very manute and pubescent. the pericarp is a capsule, triangular, oblong, obtuse, and trilocular with three longitudinal valves. the Seed So far as I could judge are noumerous not very manute and globilar. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Barbed and Unbarbed, and feet into Manycleft, and Twocleft, like those of animals with bifid hoofs, and Uncleft or Undivided, like those of animals with solid hoofs. On the Parts of Animals
Her eyes trailed upwards and stopped at the small stubborn cleft in his square chin.
Mild forms of cleft palate include submucosal clefts, pharyngeal incompetence and bifid uvula.
Dancers, madly dancing; silhouetted druidic gestures; pale ass-cleft of hippie maiden, vibrant in the dusk. Woodstock Nation
Alpine-cleft deposits develop in an existing open gash in which hydrothermal fluid infiltrates and recrystallizes the surrounding rock.
The potential teratogenicity of benzodiazepines remains controversial, but a recent meta-analysis suggested a twofold increase, at most, in the risk of orofacial clefts.
UN troops are in a cleft stick: something has to be done for the civilian population, yet to retaliate would surely be the spark to ignite all-out war.
As far as leg enchants go, there's a wonderful leatherworker made armor kit called Clefthide Leg Armor that adds 30 stamina and 10 agility. WarCry Network : Latest News
The image expanded; they were diving into the cleft between the main cardioid and its tangent circle. The Ghost from the Grand Banks
The results are as follow: 1. In the unilateral complete cleft lip, superior labial artery runs along the labial margin and cleft edge, ending in base of nasal wing on the lateral side.
The paths often passed through these rocky clefts, which in the depths of the forest were gloomy and dark in the extreme, and often full of fine-leaved herbaceous plants and curious blue-foliaged Lycopodiaceae. The Malay Archipelago
Oral-facial clefts are birth defects in which the tissues of the mouth or lip don't form properly during fetal development.
In the spray perpetual rainbows are fixed in position as though their unseen feet were nailed to the base of the cleft.
A thin cleft in the rock split the ridge like a wound.
Their baby had an operation to repair a cleft palate.
First, my brother has a cleft chin and neither of my parents has. The Sun
We ate lunch above the east fork of Coal Wash before dropping into the deep gorge via a tricky cleft in the cliff.
Inside a cleft at water level, as if on an altar of rock, rested an offering of ice, unmelted even in summer.
As the sun at last sucked the last canescence from the valley air, the Cimmerian made his way to the spring that bubbled from a cleft not far from the camp. Conan The Invincible
His skin was cleft with deep lines.
It is said that this water came from the cleft in the cliffs at Kovalam.
The diagnosis of fetal alcohol syndrome is partly based on craniofacial features which include microcephaly, telecanthus, narrow palpebral fissures, thin lips and a flat philtrum, with or without cleft lip or palate.
All in all, something of a cleft stick. Times, Sunday Times
Above us tower the stunning orangy-red sides of a narrow cleft through the sandstone. Times, Sunday Times
Toe and cleft ulceration developed de novo in patients treated with four layer compression bandaging for venous ulceration.
A few Arabs of Beni Salem here sow some fields with durra, which they irrigate by means of a fine spring of running water issuing from a cleft in the mountains, where it forms several small basins and pretty cascades — the best water I had drank since leaving the mountains of Tayf. Travels in Arabia
Advances in neonatology and pediatric anesthesia now have made it possible to perform cleft repair surgery during the neonatal period.
Their baby had an operation to repair a cleft palate.
Jynx felt at the barely noticeable cleft, tracing her fingers down it until about hip-height.
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The log which was to form the back-brand of the evening fire was the uncleft trunk of a tree, so unwieldy that it could be neither brought nor rolled to its place; and accordingly two men were to be observed dragging and heaving it in by chains and levers as the hour of assembly drew near. Far from the Madding Crowd
Washing his bloudy wounds, that through the steele were cleft. The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
This is a high magnification of the aortic atheroma with foam cells and cholesterol clefts.
The distribution of psoriasis on extensor surfaces, scalp and natal cleft helps distinguish psoriasis from discoid eczema.
But this month FDA issued a warning that pregnant women who take the antiepileptic drug Topamax are 20 times as likely to have their babies develop cleft lip and cleft palate as they would otherwise be, says Reuters. Martha Rosenberg: Moms-To-Be: Are You Taking This Dangerous Drug?
He tethered the horses in a cleft beneath the overhang and went to cut some pine boughs.
The _fourth glume_ is hyaline, as long as the third glume, 2-fid at the tip, awnless with a very minute arista in the cleft or not, paleate with two stamens; _palea_ narrow and hyaline. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
And the last one with the cleft in his chin who's all around nice and funny… his name is Marco.
The stimulants promote the release of dopamine and norepinephrine from presynaptic neurons into the synaptic cleft but then block reuptake by these same neurons.
Characteristically, psoriasis is symmetrically distributed, with lesions frequently located on the ears, elbows, knees, umbilicus, gluteal cleft and genitalia.
The femoral nerve may run buried in a cleft of the iliacus under the psoas.
Objective To explore the reparative unilateral cleft lip.
Post-op, patients are asked to refrain from sitting for about seven to 10 days because pressure can re-open the surgical incision, hidden in the cleft of the buttocks.
Objective To explore a general and reliable treat pattern for the unilateral cleft lip nasal deformity.
Do we feel pride in Jeb because he swells his chest and resolutely juts his cleft chin?
For this reason, many children with clefts have myringotomy tubes surgically inserted into their ears at the time of their first reconstructive surgery.
Seen here in a renal artery branch are cholesterol clefts of such an embolus.
Most cells grew in a sheetlike pattern, although rare clefts and villiform structures were seen.
Hanson has shown that amphetamines increase the concentration of catecholamines in the synaptic cleft by stimulating their release from the interneuronal storage vesicles.
I was in a cleft stick—my job was boring but I couldn't move to another firm without losing my company pension.
He was born with a facial cleft that meant his eyes were nearly 2in further apart than they should have been and he had no real nose. Times, Sunday Times
The third glume is hyaline, deeply cleft into two lobes with an awn in the cleft, and 3-nerved, paleate; palea is linear-lanceolate enclosing either stamens and ovary or ovary alone. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
If a particular landmark on the ear is a health indicator, why not the cleft in a chin or the tilt of a brow, asks McCarthy.
My understanding is represented in vast patterns of neurotransmitter strengths, synaptic clefts, and interneuronal connections. 'I Married a Computer': An Exchange
Now they fared over that neck somewhat east, making but slow way because the ground was so broken and rocky; and in another hour's space Sure-foot led down-hill due east to where the stony neck sank into another desolate miry heath still falling toward the east, but whose further side was walled by a rampart of crags cleft at their tops into marvellous-shapes, coal-black, ungrassed and unmossed. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
_Flower-heads_ -- Bright yellow, 1 to 2 in. across, numerous, borne on long peduncles in corymb-like clusters; the rays 3 to 5 cleft, and drooping around the yellow or yellowish-brown disk. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
Some experts also say that cleft lip and palate may be a marker for a multitude of severe congenital abnormalities.
The fellow will work closely with the full-time faculty in Plastic Surgery as well as faculty in related specialties for experience in managing cleft lip and palate, craniofacial anomalies, dermatologic and vascular malformations, congenital anomalies of the eye and adnexa, pediatric hand, and general pediatric plastic surgical problems. Pediatric Plastic Surgery Fellowship
He had his hands steepled and the spired fingers were itching up and down a scar he had in the cleft of his chin. BLOOD IS DIRT
Together these symbols signify that she is standing on a clefted place called the Yax Hal Witznal in ancient Mayan, meaning the "First True Mountain Place," the first piece of terra firma to appear after Creation. Bearers of War and Creation
The lubric enlacements of the branches, dilated crevices and cleft mosses, the coupling of the diverse beings of the wood, disappear; the tears of the leaves whipped by the wind are dried; the white abscesses of the clouds are resorbed into the grey of the sky; and -- in an awful silence -- the incubi and succubi pass. Là-bas
He had his hands steepled and the spired fingers were itching up and down a scar he had in the cleft of his chin. BLOOD IS DIRT
That man in the Day-Glo hard hat wolf-whistling is now an urban regenerator and the tempting cleft peeping from his waistband announces his urban regenerator's bum. Archive 2008-03-01
Native runner arrives from capital with letter wedged in cleft of stick. Archive 2008-01-20
As I stop, crouching behind a tree to conceal myself, my foot dislodges some loose soil to reveal a deep, narrow cleft between two rocks.
Where the sky would be is a uniform grayish blank, which defines both the far horizon (the ridge line) and the uppermost cleft of the rock with one long, graceful curve.
Following the lead of one Thomas Aquinas, it was thought that the unicorn probably had attributes of both: thus he was pictured as being a goat with a horse's head, or having cleft hooves before and solid hooves behind.
Objective To explore the reparative unilateral cleft lip.
I have to admit that seeing the intermammary sulci like that signaled to me a resemblance to the gluteal sulcus or the natal cleft which left me thinking of thoughts of reproduction. The sleazy sexism that's served up...
Harelip, also known as cleft palate, is a birth defect that occurs when the tissues form the upper lip do not join in the middle. 6 month old fetus aborted because of harelip
One photogenic house turned out to be set in a cleft of hills so steep that it felt half-buried; several others had been sold months before.
His nose was. the same as Daddy's as it aimed at the heavens, his fall lips so beautifully shaped he didn't need to pout to make them sensual, his chin square, strong, clefted, and his chest was beginning to broaden. and there was that hillock of his growing maleness before his strong thighs, beginning to swell. Flowers In The Attic
The way back follows a less popular route, via a rocky cleft above the lower lake, which begins with a traverse on which, I must confess, I tried to avoid looking down.
Objective : To discuss methods of the cheiloplasty in curing postoperative deformity of unilateral complete cleft lip.
The terracing that covers every practicable inch of this vast cleft in the earth, dates back hundreds and in some cases thousands of years, certainly long before the Incas conquered the valley.
It can help to discuss the problems with people who have had similar experiences or by having access to psychological support available from specialist cleft teams.
Suddenly his hand appeared on my chin, namely the rounded edges of his thumb ran back and forth against the cleft of my chin, then rested motionless right in the center.
A 58 year old man was referred to the surgical clinic with a swelling in the natal cleft thought to be a pilonidal mass or abscess.
The involucre is very remarkable, monophyllous, broad at top and 6 or 8-cleft, almost wholly concealing the calyx. — Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
His "clefts" and "wedges" owe their attraction not only to their intricate angularity but to the violent cleavings and thrustings apart which they result from or produce. Robert Browning
The wooden door had been cleft in two.
These clefts are usually incomplete clefts of the lip only.
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I have got photos of my client with these red lips and a big old cleft on his chin which he didn't have previously.
The sacred way moves towards the cleft hill and a pass which opens to Eleusis itself.
The management that can be used is either to place some sort of obturator in the cleft or to close the cleft with available tissue of the roof of the mouth.
If only instead of a phallic button, they'd provided each couple with a strokable velvety cleft, or a sensuous, supple, peach-sized ball with a nipply appendage. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
His fist cleft the air.
Based on a tousled, centre-left clefted, mop head with policy aversion? Bad Hair Day: Cam Hands Double Crown to Lib Dems
An inconspicuous cleft within steep red cliffs marks its entrance; the cliffs themselves rise abruptly from a wide, dry plain, dotted with ancient boab trees.
Katya was born with a bilateral hare lip and cleft palate.
For if, when the sun is shining upon a tree, the axe should cleave the tree, and, nevertheless, the sun remains uncleft and void of passion, much more will the passionless divinity of the Word, united in subsistence to the flesh, remain void of passion when the body undergoes passion [2233]. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
There is no nerve plexus in the clefts between these muscle layers.
Pastor Ortler was at home with the monks, and hardly had we thawed ourselves before the ample fireplace, when a supper was prepared, and over their well-spread tables the monks told stories of travellers lost among the granite heights, with clefts and ledges filled with ice. Scenes in Switzerland
I was in a cleft stick—my job was boring but I couldn't move to another firm without losing my company pension.
Examples of multifactorial disorders include cleft lip and palate, neural tube defects and pyloric stenosis.
Cleft lip and cleft palate range from a small notch in the lip to a groove that runs into the roof of the mouth and nose, possibly leading to problems with eating, talking and ear infections.
The British Museum is in a bit of a cleft stick over Africa.
The term harelip, used to describe facial clefts, arose from JAMA current issue
Cleft lips and palates are classified as what is called a multifactorial condition.
The involucre is very remarkable, monophyllous, broad at top and 6 or 8-cleft, almost wholly concealing the calyx. — Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, or a way for the lightning of the thunder? A Hero and Some Other Folks
Objective To explore an modified technique to repair the microform cleft lip ( MCL ).
A second patient brought mobile phone images of his partner's episodic natal cleft rash, which had defied GP and dermatological diagnosis for 3 years.
Description: You have a pronounced chin; I daresay there was a cleft in it. Casting the Detectives: Crime Fiction's Biggest Movie Stars
A baby that appeared weak or sickly at birth, or had even a minor birth defect such a cleft pallet, hair lip, or cleft foot, or was in some other way imperfect was killed.
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You plunge into a winding cleft whose strata swirl across cliffs like a serrated knife through butter.
Ah, yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the Heavens; yet, in the clefts of it, fountains, green, beautiful valleys with flowers. Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties
This mountain may possess other features, but the double peak or notched cleft remains constant.
The distribution of psoriasis on extensor surfaces, scalp and natal cleft helps distinguish psoriasis from discoid eczema.
This high magnification of the atheroma shows numerous foam cells and an occasional cholesterol cleft.
Her skin was cleft with deep lines running from the jaw to the high jutting cheekbones.
Seen here in a renal artery are cholesterol clefts of such an embolus.
And it can also result in some other types of anomalies including cleft lip or palate, abnormalities of speech or phonation, and in some patients, even development of learning differences or learning difficulties. Tetralogy of Fallot — Preparing for your Baby's Delivery
The common risk factors are: sibling history of OM, victims of atopy and cleft palate, early onset of the first episode, and attendance in day care centers.
It felt as if they took most of the night to reach the little green stream in the cleft of the valley, but Bligh knew it was no more than twenty minutes.
And born with severely bowed legs and cleft feet, he walked with metal braces.
Once here he will have an operation to repair a cleft palate by plastic surgeon Charles Viva.
Professor Stanton was in his late forties, silver haired and handsome to the girls in class, although his deep-clefted chin drew him the nickname Dr. Assface. Land of the Blind
The gypsy chief led the way through a stand of trees to a cleft in the mountain, a clearing of flat gray rock overlooking a deep forested valley.
Away went these upon their errand to the sea, and then came back the grating roar and plashy jerks of launching, the plunging, and the gurgling, and the quiet murmur of cleft waves. Mary Anerley
Cholesterol clefts were shown on biopsy in all four cases, and eosinophilia was noted in three.
Doctors said that I was born with a cleft palate and lip - both congenital malformations of the face.
I am quite sure that few, if any of you, believe that I descended into the cleft of a great diamond lying beneath what we call the crust of the earth. The Great Stone of Sardis
a knife the Scotch highlanders call a skean-dhu, sharp-pointed as a needle, sharp-edged as a razor, and with one blow of it he had cleft her heart, and she never cried or laughed any more in that body whose charms she had degraded to the vile servitude of her vanity. Thomas Wingfold, Curate
Ulceration mainly occurred on the dorsum of the medial three toes and interdigital clefts, occasionally extending to the sole of the foot.
In the case of a partial or complete failure of the two sides of the face to come together in the median line, a deformity results which is known as harelip -- a partial or complete cleft of the upper lip. The Mother and Her Child
This result is due to several factors: a direct release of norepinephrine from storage vesicles, the blockage of reuptake of norepinephrine once it has been released into the synaptic cleft and a decrease in norepinephrine metabolism due to inability of MAO to break down norepinephrine. Monamine Oxidase Inhibitors
A member of the craniofacial team introduces the new parents to the parent-to-parent network available to parents of infants with cleft deformities.
Bobby was born with a cleft lip.
The spinous processes of cervical vertebrae 2, 3, 4, and 5 usually possess cleft spines.
Ulceration mainly occurred on the dorsum of the medial three toes and interdigital clefts, occasionally extending to the sole of the foot.
Ardel came to St. Louis and took a crash course in cleft-palate repair. Vietti, Eleanor A.
Somewhat protected from the ravaging winds of the bay is the area known as Carmel Valley, a cleft in the hills that still gets its share of marine coolness.
The septal deviation may be so severe that it partially or completely obstructs the nasal passage on the cleft side.
There is an early legend that swallows and swifts hibernated in caves or clefts in the rocks.
_Leaves: _ Opposite, on slender petioles; lower ones rounded, 2 to 4 in. broad, palmately cut into 2 to 5 lobes; upper leaves narrower, 3-cleft or 3-toothed. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
Depolarization of the presynaptic membrane causes release of acetylcholine into the synaptic cleft.
Relief flared, briefly, brutally; then Joss hallooed just out of her sight, and she and Flirt rounded through eddying currents to see him banking in toward a cleft situated below the summit. Spirit Gate
Many children who have clefts continue to work with a speech therapist throughout their grade-school years.
The open , needle - like spaces in the atheromatous plaque are cholesterol clefts.
I have used the in-lay bark, modified cleft, the cleft, and what I call a saddle graft, bevelling two sides of the stock and splitting the scion, thus slipping the split scion down over the prepared stock. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952
He said that hair lip and cleft palette ran in his family.
He also noticed, growing out of a cleft in a rock in front of him, a strawberry plant with one ripe berry.
Alpine-cleft deposits develop in an existing open gash in which hydrothermal fluid infiltrates and recrystallizes the surrounding rock.
Though these observations were made on shore with great care, so that I never stirred the instrument when once set till the end of my observations, I am satisfied there must be some error; because the great heat cracked the plate of ivory in the middle, so that there remained a great cleft as thick as a _gold portague_. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
The third ventricle is a median cleft between the two thalami. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
Above, the cleft was barred by vertical walls forming a difficult obstacle, demanding care and attention.
Clinical outcomes in cleft lip and palate surgery. Related Research
First, my brother has a cleft chin and neither of my parents has. The Sun
Significant areas of fraying, hemorrhage, granulation tissue, or an unusually deep cleft also suggest lesions.
The operation consists of making a 5-7cm incision, usually in the natal cleft crease.
As its name suggests, creeping marshwort is a low-growing plant. The leaves are toothed with a single large cleft, and the plant sends out runners which creep low to the ground or slightly below the surface.
Above the butte is another deep canon, through which the river has cleft its way. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
Not a place of honour or usefulness - the book of Leviticus advises Jews that the pig, even though it has divided hoofs and is cleft-footed, it does not chew the cud; and therefore it is unclean.
In other words, any derivative work cleft from the rib of Facebook must visibly bear the mark of the “Initial Developer”, namely, Facebook, Inc., and include the following: Parsing the “open” in Facebook’s “fbOpen” platform | FactoryCity
A second patient brought mobile phone images of his partner's episodic natal cleft rash, which had defied GP and dermatological diagnosis for 3 years.
One evening, as I was escaping from a coffee-house, after having drawn my attaghan, without having the courage to face my adversary, I received a blow from his weapon which cleft my turban, and cut deeply into my head. The Pacha of Many Tales
Dust and debris plumed above the cleft while more boulders cascaded down. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
Duarte Ribeiro, Francisco Braga, and Teofilo Costa were cheerful companions and took him to the border and directly to the temporary camp of the Spanish guerrillero leader with a sureness that suggested a long familiarity with the rugged hills and the deep clefts of ravines that tended all to look alike to Captain Blake. Beyond the Sunrise
UN troops are in a cleft stick: something has to be done for the civilian population, yet to retaliate would surely be the spark to ignite all-out war.
Adverse effects on nidation in rats, embryo viability in mice, and metabolism in vitro of rat testis and human spermatozoa have been attributed to Lithium, as have teratogenicity in submammalian species and cleft palate in mice. TreeHugger
Berkshire variety of the British domesticated pig, in which the hoof is entire and uncleft. The Book of Household Management
This cleft is relatively deeper in larger individuals.
He was born with a facial cleft that meant his eyes were nearly 2in further apart than they should have been and he had no real nose. Times, Sunday Times
The _fourth glume_ is shorter than the third, deeply 2-fid and awned in the cleft, bisexual or female, 3 - to A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Dancers, madly dancing; silhouetted druidic gestures; pale ass-cleft of hippie maiden, vibrant in the dusk. Woodstock Nation
The Oakeydean Burn gathers water from the moorland above, creating a Northumbrian dene, a narrow, wooded cleft snaking down the hillside. Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
Children with cleft lips or palates are given the chance to have the deformity corrected.
He ran his thumb down the cleft of his chin, self-consciously, over a small vertical shaving nick on the cleft of his chin.
The long hydrophobic tail of vinyl butyrate was placed along the hydrophobic cleft of the active site, while the bulky phenyl ring was fitted on the opposite side.
Many orthopedic conditions, just like dimples or cleft chins, are just normal variations of human anatomy that don't require treatment.
One previous project was the Smile Campaign, which gave reconstructive surgery to children with cleft palettes and those with burns.
As I walked down at this place I was walled on both sides by those inaccessible high rocky barren hills wch hangs over ones head in some places and appears very terrible, and from them springs many Little Currents of water from the sides and Clefts, wch trickle down to some Lower part where it runs swiftly over the stones and shelves in the way, wch makes a pleasant Rush and murmuring noise, and Like a snowball is Encreased by Each spring trickling down on either side of those hills, and so descends into the bottoms wch are a moorish ground in wch in many places the waters stand, and so forme some of those Lakes as it did here. Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
I once stood on this spot and watched a skein of migrating geese flap their way in perfect chevron formation through the great cleft of the Lairig an Laoigh below, their wings cutting through the air with a rhythmic whoosh.
Inspired by the Rock Hudson / Doris Day classic, Pillow Talk, John turned his considerable (and consistent) matinee idol clefted chin and smoldering stare towards our cameras. Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News
Its northern opening was located in a small cleft in the hillside at the bottom of an arroyo within eyeshot of the Texas border.
Genetic basis of craniofacial anomalies such as cleft palate, holoprosencephaly and craniosynostosis. Research in genetics at CHOP
The others catch sight of the ratfish at the same time as me, but it is not alone - there are five of these ‘monsters ‘in the cleft.’
he had a cleft chin and strong jaw
A CT scan enables assessment of the degree of aeration of the middle ear cleft and mastoid cavity and a bone scan may detect osteomyelitis.
When found by the hounds, and the chase has begun, the hare will at times cross streams, bend and double and creep for shelter into clefts and crannied lurking-places; 154 since they have not only the hounds to dread, but eagles also; and, so long as they are yearlings, are apt to be carried off in the clutches of these birds, in the act of crossing some slope or bare hillside. On Hunting
At a very early stage we notice in the embryo of man and the other amniotes, at each side of the head, the remarkable and important structures which we call the gill-arches and gill-clefts (Figures The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
Adrian and I, leaving Clara and Evelyn wrapt in peaceful unobserving slumber, carried the body to this desolate spot, and placed it in those caves of ice beneath the glacier, which rive and split with the slightest sound, and bring destruction on those within the clefts — no bird or beast of prey could here profane the frozen form. The Last Man
Its risqué shell is a life-sized simulacrum of the female reproductive region, including hips, an exposed midriff, two thighs and a pudendal cleft—complete with a tuft of alarmingly lifelike hair on the mons pubis. The Fruit Hunters
There was a small cleft in his strong square chin and long dark eyelashes framed eyes the same rich dark brown as his hair.
Some studies have linked benzodiazepine use during pregnancy to facial cleft and skeletal abnormalities in the fetus.
-- Above ashy blue, slaty or pale mouse colour; albescent or yellowish ashy beneath; nasal appendage large, oblong, free at the tip, reaching to the base of the ears with a fold down the centre; tragus (_oreillon_) cordate, two-lobed, anterior long, narrow and pointed, posterior lobe half the height and rounded; muzzle truncated; under-lip cleft; wing membranes dark brown. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
We have obtained some of Mr. Jackson's excess body tissues (particularly from the chin cleft area) and have extracted DNA from these tissues. Michael Jackson Genome Project
A little above the interdigital clefts, each of these digital arteries divides into two branches, which pass along the adjacent sides of two fingers -- a mode of distribution which also characterises the digital branches of the median, b b, and ulnar nerves, e e. Surgical Anatomy
He has no harelip, cleft palate or butterfly nevus, Captain. Naked Cruelty

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