Usually means: Birth defect, split in palate.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word cleft palate:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. cleft palate: Merriam-Webster
  2. cleft palate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cleft palate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cleft palate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cleft palate: Vocabulary.com
  6. cleft palate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cleft palate: Wiktionary
  8. cleft palate: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. cleft palate: Dictionary.com
  10. Cleft palate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. cleft palate: Rhymezone
  12. cleft palate: FreeDictionary.org
  13. cleft palate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. cleft palate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. cleft palate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cleft palate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cleft palate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. cleft palate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cleft palate, Palate, cleft: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Dental and Oral Health Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Cleft palate: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  9. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  10. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  11. cleft palate: Medical dictionary
  12. Cleft palate, Palate, cleft: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See cleft_palates as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cleft palate)

noun:  (teratology) An abnormal condition in which the two plates of the skull that form the hard palate (roof of the mouth) are not completely joined.

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