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Leo III (sh) and palate, cleft (medicine)


Leo III (sh)




known as Leo the Isaurian

born งใ 675, Germanicia, Commagene, Syria
died June 18, 742, Constantinople

Byzantine emperor (717-41), founder of the Isaurian dynasty.

A high-ranking military commander, he seized the throne with the help of Arab armies who hoped to subjugate the Byzantine Empire. He then successfully defended Constantinople against the Arabs (717-718). Having crowned his son Constantine V coemperor (720), Leo used his son's Marriage to cement an alliance with the Khazars. Victory over the Arabs at Akro?nos (740) was crucial in preventing their conquest of Asia Minor. Leo issued an important legal code, the Ecloga (726). His policy of iconoclasm (730), which banned the use of sacred images in churches, engendered a century of conflict within the empire and further strained relations with the pope in Rome.


palate, cleft (medicine)


palate, cleft


An opening in the roof of the mouth, due to a failure of the palatal shelves to come fully together from either side of the mouth and fuse during embryonic development.