cleft palate

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   a congenital fissure of the hard palate

   Broaderbirth defect

Questions about cleft palate

What does cleft palate mean?

cleft palate means "a congenital fissure of the hard palate".

Is cleft palate a common word?

cleft palate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.