The hairs would be detached in vomiting but would grow again, and when he was last seen they were one inch long.

Such are possibly nevoid in formation.
The ordinary anomalies of the palate are the fissures, unilateral, bilateral, median, etc.: they are generally associated with hare-lip.
The median fissure commencing between the middle incisors is quite rare.
Many curious forms of obturator or artificial palate are employed to remedy congenital defects.

Sercombe mentions a case in which destruction of the entire palate was successfully relieved by mechanical means.

In some instances among the lower classes these obturators are simple pieces of wood, so fashioned as to fit into the palatine cleft, and not infrequently the obturator has been swallowed, causing obstruction of the air-passages or occluding the esophagus.
Abnormalism of the Uvula .-- Examples of double uvula are found in the older writers, and Hagendorn speaks of a man who was born without a uvula.

The Ephemerides and Salmuth describe uvulae so defective as to be hardly noticeable.