A bifid uvula is an abnormal split or division in the uvula, or tissue that hangs down at the end of the soft palate in the roof of the mouth. A bifid uvula is usually identified at birth when a ...

Having a bifid uvula means that the tissue that dangles in the back of the throat between the tonsils has two parts instead of one. This occurs in about 2 percent of the population and is something ...

Your uvula is the fleshy tissue that hangs in the back of your throat. It's attached to the roof of your mouth (soft palate). You can see it if you look in the mirror and open your mouth wide. Your ...

The presence of the classic triad of craniofacial abnormalities, aortic aneurysm, and bifid uvula, as well as the family history of aortic disease, strongly suggested a diagnosis of Loeys–Dietz ...

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IN 1951 Binkley and Johnson 1 reported the case of a thirty-one-year-old woman with basal-cell nevi, agenesis of the corpus callosum and dental cysts. The skin lesions, appearing in childhood, ...