See Also: velopharyngeal insufficiency(medicine)
Yazoo River(encyclopedia)
Yazoo land fraud(encyclopedia)
velopharyngeal(dictionary)
velopharyngeal(medicine)
velopharyngeal closure(medicine)
velopharyngeal seal(medicine)
velopharyngeal sphincter(medicine)
INSUFFICIENCY(law)
insufficiency(dictionary)

Yazoo River (sh) and velopharyngeal insufficiency (medicine)


Yazoo River (sh)




River, west-central Mississippi, U.S. Formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie and Yalobusha rivers north of Greenwood, Miss.

, it meanders 189 mi (304 km) south and southwest to join the Mississippi River above Vicksburg. Its basin is protected from flooding by an extensive system of levees.


velopharyngeal insufficiency (medicine)


velopharyngeal insufficiency
Failure of the soft palate to reach the posterior pharyngeal wall. It may be caused by cleft palate surgery, palatal or pharyngeal abnormalities or injury, or neuromuscular dysfunction of the velopharyngeal sphincter. It causes hypernasality of speech.