Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Often Offensive Cleft lip.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A congenital fissure or vertical division of the upper lip: so called from its supposed resemblance to the lip of a hare.
- noun The hare-lipped sucker, Quassilabia lacera, a catostomid fish remarkable for the conformation of the mouth, which suggests a harelip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun teratology A congenital malformation of the upper lip, reminiscent of the mouth of a hare.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip
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Examples
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The term harelip, used to describe facial clefts, arose from
JAMA current issue Smith, G. C. S. 2010
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The term harelip, used to describe facial clefts, arose from
JAMA current issue G. C. S. Smith 2010
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Away from home, kids taunted Deshante, called her harelip, physically abused her.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Away from home, kids taunted Deshante, called her harelip, physically abused her.
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In the case of a partial or complete failure of the two sides of the face to come together in the median line, a deformity results which is known as harelip -- a partial or complete cleft of the upper lip.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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Takuan said: "Cleft lip (cheiloschisis) and cleft palate (palatoschisis) (colloquially known as harelip), which ca ..." mdh said: "Klg19 - I would not support pointing this cannon towards a homeless shelter. ..."
Boing Boing 2009
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Takuan said: "Cleft lip (cheiloschisis) and cleft palate (palatoschisis) (colloquially known as harelip), which ca ..." mdh said: "Klg19 - I would not support pointing this cannon towards a homeless shelter. ..."
Boing Boing 2009
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Children in particular suffer a lot from the deformity, even if the insulting and discriminating term 'harelip' has fortunately almost died out.
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Children in particular suffer a lot from the deformity, even if the insulting and discriminating term 'harelip' has fortunately almost died out.
innovations-report 2009
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Elsewhere in text it is spelled "harelip". (a hare lip.
The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand 1890
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