Definition: 'Facial Cleft'
facial cleft
Type: Term
Definitions:
1. a cleft resulting from incomplete merging or fusion of embryonic facial processes normally uniting in the formation of the face, cleft lip or cleft palate.
Synonyms:
prosopoanoschisis
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