Even relatively minor problems, such as harelips and cleft palates, often are not surgically corrected _ which contributes in turn to feeding problems, and which, in a situation of extreme neglect, then leads to malnutrition and death.
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While many gargoyles in Manhattan are well preserved, others seem to be verging on collapse or suffering from a bad paint job or cracking in the most unflattering places, resulting in a missing nose, a harelip, a cleft palate.
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"The idea is not just to sew up somebody's lips and have people say, ` Gee, they did a nice job on your harelip, "'said Dr . Mike Freedland, a surgeon from Detroit.
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One day while Isak had left the farm to sell a bull in the village, Inger gave birth to a child and had killed it upon seeing that it had a harelip and would undergo the inevitable suffering in life she herself had experienced.
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"Displaying a stubborn single-mindedness ( which in a young girl in those days was considered as bad as a physical deformity-a harelip perhaps, or a club foot ), Baby Kochamma defied her father's wishes and became a Roman Catholic ."
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He wrote about a man who painted a spider on his bald head to keep the flies away; a cat with a harelip who could whistle " Yankee Doodle, " and a cow so modest that she kicked over the pail whenever a man tried to milk her.
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"Precious Bane " is set in the years after the Battle of Waterloo, and tells the story of Prue Sarn, disfigured by a harelip which her superstitious neighbours regard as a sign that she is a witch, and how she falls in love with a visiting weaver, Kester Woodseaves.
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Chief among the curious crew here is Joe ( John Hoffman ), a gentle, reasonable man who guides Roberta and Ben around the village but has trouble communicating with them because of a harelip . ( " Frank told me that repeating words was a good thing, " he happily tells them .)
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His thinking seems to be that if you need to know six things about Isabella Stewart Gardner, one is that she had a harelip and another is that she was manipulated by the wily Bernard Berenson, who, Hughes can't resist saying, got a 25 percent kickback on the paintings he pushed her to buy.
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Thus in humans " harelip, spina bifida, hydrocephalus " and " polydactyly " may be found in the same monster; while in " acrocephalosyndactyly " we find an egg-or dome-shaped skull, partial or complete fusion of digits in both hands and feet and, often in addition, harelip, contractures, spina bifida and mental abnormality.