Word: harelip
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...left. Clergymen in Indianapolis told reporters that with two brains and two hearts it must have two personalities and therefore should have double baptism. Meanwhile, doctors at Riley Hospital concentrated on keeping it alive, using oxygen because the right-hand member has poor circulation. This side also has a harelip and a poorer appetite. Surgery, such as separated the Brodie twins, appears impossible because there is only one set of organs below the chest...
...their pregnancies. Mice, unlike men, do not suffer from mongolism. But Dr. Ingalls found skull defects (actually worse than mongolism) in about a third of the litters which had been starved of oxygen on the eighth day of development. Lack of oxygen on the twelfth day gave them harelip, on the 14th day, cleft palate...
...Except for harelip (a condition usually found with cleft palate), for which operations may begin when the baby is only a few days...
...patrons, Richmond Poetaster Mann Valentine (whose minor and forgotten writings he illustrated) tried to put the successful young painter under a microscope. Hubard, Valentine wrote, was "small, delicate looking, black hair, brown eyes, harelip, Roman nose, large mouth; strongly marked features:-when quiet- painful, sad, and thoughtful; when he laughs it is hysterical and rarely with a hearty guffah...
...difficulties in conversation will strike a responsive chord in the cochlea of every hard-of-hearing person. She admired Malthus but could not understand him; he had a harelip and a cleft palate. Wordsworth took his teeth out after dinner, which made his most inspired words unintelligible to poor Harriet...