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We suspect he also had a partially cleft palate, another congenital defect.
我们怀疑他还有部分腭裂，这也是一种先天性缺陷。
But late abortions authorised for relatively minor problems, such as a cleft palate or club foot, have fuelled controversy.
但是，因相对较小的问题，比如颚裂或内外足而晚期流产的，引起了很大的争议。
Berlin, for so long cleft in two in every way imaginable, has hosted a thriving underground for decades, and particularly since reunification in 1990.
柏林因为陷入了长达数十年的东西分裂的困境，从而使得地下乐团蓬勃发展，在1990年柏林重新联合那一年，地下乐团尤为活跃。

Now,the University of Southern California researchers say their work may make it possible for doctors to heal cleft palate before birth.
When these vesicles dump their contents into the synaptic cleft, the concentration of these ligands rise.
当这些小泡将其内含物释放入突触间隙,这些配体的浓度即增加
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It's called the synaptic cleft and it's filled with extracellular fluid.
这一空间叫做突触间隙,中间充满了细胞外液
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The boulder, about five feet square, had a badly mended cleft in the middle.
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