staphylorrhaphy

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English

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Etymology

From staphylo- +‎ -rrhaphy.

Noun

staphylorrhaphy (countable and uncountable, plural staphylorrhaphies)

  1. The operation of uniting a cleft palate by paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “staphylorrhaphy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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