cleft lip

1. 1.

   a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip

   Synonymsharelipcheiloschisis

   Broaderbirth defect

Questions about cleft lip

What does cleft lip mean?

cleft lip means "a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip".

What is another word for cleft lip?

Close synonyms include harelip, cheiloschisis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cleft lip a common word?

cleft lip is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.