Cleft lip is formed in the top of the lip as either a small gap or an indentation in the lip (partial or incomplete cleft) or it continues into the nose (complete cleft).

The depressor labii inferioris (or quadratus labii inferioris) is a facial muscle that helps lower the bottom lip.

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Approximately 1 in 700 children born have a cleft lip or a cleft palate or both.

He stood on the edge of the cliff.

They camped at the water's edge.

Pakistan on the Precipice

Return to the Abyss

Europe on the Verge of a Political Breakdown

My pencil fell off the edge of my desk.

Back to the Brink in Ukraine

Northeast Asia on the Brink

Russia is moving toward precipice.

They make their way on the edges of society.

And every time I approached the corner or the curb I would panic.

He's at the sharp knife edge of this problem.

That could take all of us to the edge of a slippery slope.

To the Brink and Back with Iran

An example for how environmental factors might be linked to genetics comes from research on mutations in the gene PHF8 that cause cleft lip palate (see above).

Treatment Cleft lip and palate is very treatable however, the kind of treatment depends on the type and severity of the cleft.

The men sat on the edge of the boat and women at the bottom.

Christmas day it was out on the shelf edge.

That is the precipice on which Greece stands today.

China is dangerously near a crisis point.

BERKELEY Europe is again on the precipice.

MADRID Once again, Europe has peered into the abyss.

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Guinea, with a nasty military junta in power, is on the brink of disaster.

Georgia, which is both European and Asiatic, teeters on the edge of instability.

We urge the Assembly to step back from the brink.

It had already spread to his lymph nodes, so we used an antiangiogenic skin cream for the lip and an oral cocktail, so we could treat from the inside as well as the outside.

The diplomacy of sanctions, ostracism, and brinkmanship has failed resoundingly.

It is held culpable for the near financial meltdown.

Today, Iraq may be on the verge of civil war between Shiites and Sunnis.

LOS ANGELES A few weeks ago, the world was on the edge of disaster.

Other states in the region have been teetering on the brink of failure from the outset.

It also brought both countries to the brink of economic disaster.

There was a wall around in them, around the four, and boiling places were made under the walls all around.

And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.

Focus all of your time and attention on the kids who are on the bubble, the so called bubble kids kids where your intervention can get them just maybe over the line from failing to passing.

So, we drop in the water, and we just sort of go over the edge of this cliff, and then we just start dropping, dropping, dropping.

Last September, the world stood on the edge of a global financial meltdown.

And now, AP reports that the Gaza phone network is on the brink of collapse.

The worst drought in 60 years has left millions of people at the brink of starvation.