See Also: facial cleft(medicine)
oblique facial cleft(medicine)
cleft 3,(dictionary)
cleft lip(dictionary)
cleft(2)(dictionary)
cleft(1)(dictionary)
two-cleft(medicine)
Cleft lip(health)
Cleft lip(medicine)
Cleft(medicine)

anise (iou) and facial cleft (medicine)


anise (iou)



anise noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French anis from Latin anisum, from Greek anison dill, anise.]
(The aromatic seed of) an umbelliferous plant, Pimpinella anisum, native to the eastern Mediterranean region. Anciently confused with dill, which was prob. the 'anise' of the Bible. ME.
Any of several trees and shrubs of the Asian and American genus Illicium, which bear fruit with the odour of aniseed; esp. (a) (more fully Japanese anise, Chinese anise) = SHIKIMI; (b) = star-anise s.v. STAR noun1 & adjective Also, the fruit of these plants. E18.
anisated adjective mixed or flavoured with aniseed L17.

facial cleft (medicine)


facial cleft


A cleft resulting from incomplete merging or fusion of embryonic processes normally uniting in the formation of the face, e.g., cleft lip or cleft palate.

Synonym: prosopoanoschisis.