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We have in English the expression, "pulling a long lip." Its origin is said to date back to a semimythical hero of King Arthur's time, who, "when sad at heart and melancholic," would let one of his lips drop below his waist, while he turned the other up like a cap on his head. Blot records a case of monstrous congenital hypertrophy of the superior lip in an infant of eight months.
Buck successfully treated by surgical operations a case of congenital hypertrophy of the under lip, and Detmold mentions a similar result in a young lady with hypertrophy of the lip and lower part of the nose.
Murray reports an undescribed malformation of the lower lip occurring in one family. Hare-lip may be unilateral or double, and may or may not include the palatine arch.
In the worst cases it extends in fissures on both sides to the orbit.
In other cases the minimum degree of this deformity is seen. Congenital absence of the tongue does not necessarily make speech, taste, or deglutition impossible.
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