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Definition of Clefts
1. cleft [v] - See also: cleft
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clefts
Literary usage of Clefts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"It ¡s especially characteristic of fishes that a number of these clefts remain
open as functional breathing organs in the adult. at ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"On the Origin of tlie Vertebrate Notochord and Pharyngeal clefts. By AT MASTERMAN,
BA, D.Sc. The three leading anatomical features of the Chordata are ..."
3. Operative surgery, for students and practitioners by John Joseph McGrath (1909)
"Lateral clefts of the upper lip and the alveolar process; clefts of the palate
... These clefts are always lateral and may be present on one or both sides. ..."
4. The Elements of Embryology by Michael Foster, Francis Maitland Balfour (1883)
"The visceral clefts and arches to a large extent disappear in the adult, and
constitute ... The visceral arches and clefts are in fact the homologues of the ..."
5. Songs of the Day and Night: Or, Three Centuries of Original Hymns for Public by Alexander Balloch Grosart (1890)
"clefts of the Rock ! O precious saying Of His fast-hasting Day dismaying !
Sure hiding place in ev'ry shock, clefts of the Rock ! clefts of the Rock ! 2. ..."
6. Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Carl Gegenbaur (1878)
"These branchial or visceral clefts are never more than four in number, and they
appear in such a way from before •2 x ..."
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