See Also: palatorrhaphy(medicine)

umzimbeet (iou) and palatorrhaphy (medicine)


umzimbeet (iou)



umzimbeet noun. & Other vars. L19.
[Zulu umSimbithi ironwood.]
The hard heavy wood of a southern African leguminous tree, Millettia grandis, which bears clusters of pink or purple flowers; the tree yielding this wood.

palatorrhaphy (medicine)


palatorrhaphy
Suture of a cleft palate.

Synonym: staphylorrhaphy, uraniscorrhaphy, uranorrhaphy, velosynthesis.

Origin: palato-+ G. Rhaphe, suture