(n.) Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most thyroid hormone actions, however, appear in the perinatal period, and infants with thyroid agenesis appear normal at birth and develop normally with prompt neonatal diagnosis and treatment.
(2) Of the sampled population, 6.3 per cent exhibited some degree of hypodontia (third molar agenesis excluded).
(3) Especially a total iodide transport defect can easily be misclassified as thyroid agenesis, since radionuclide imaging cannot visualize the thyroid.
(4) In the child born with sacral agenesis, the management of arthrogrypotic-like deformities, spinal and multisystem abnormalities poses several problems to the orthopedist.
(5) Only a few cases of bilateral pulmonary agenesis have been reported.
(6) MRI revealed cranium bifida and agenesis of anterior medullar velum.
(7) This could be the first case of bilateral agenesis of the internal carotid artery reported "in vivo."
(8) To present the experience of a large referral center with patients with the rare but specific syndrome of uterus didelphys, obstructed hemivagina, and ipsilateral renal agenesis.
(9) The renal response to volume expansion was determined in four patients with renal hypertrophy due to unilateral renal agenesis (URA) and in four patients with renal hypertrophy due to nephrectomy (Nz).
(10) Two new cases of callosal agenesis in children of normal intelligence are presented.
(11) Within the past 24 months, we have performed prenatal diagnostic studies in 4 pregnancies known to be at risk for well-described genetic syndrome involving renal abnormalities, ie, Meckel syndrome, Roberts syndrome, and bilateral renal agenesis.
(12) Furthermore, agenesis of incisors, canines and premolars ranges from 0.4% in controls to 1.3% in propositi having reduced ULI and 5.0% in propositi with two missing ULI.
(13) On the basis of a case of agenesis of the gallbladder personally observed the most significant epidemiologic, etiopathogenetic, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of this rare anatomic anomaly are analyzed.
(14) Labyrinthine trepanation was performed in the majority of 16 patients with minor agenesis of middle ear involving either stapedovestibular ankylosis or absence of fenestra vestibuli.
(15) The nonsurgical subjects with developmental callosal agenesis and acquired pathologic processes involving the callosum revealed a varied, nonspecific reduction in cognitive function most probably related to associated extracallosal hemispheric pathology.
(16) Chromosome analysis of blood cells from a 42-year-old white male with mental retardation, colon carcinoma, horseshoe kidney, absence of left lobe of the liver, agenesis of the gallbladder, and possible Gardner syndrome revealed a constitutional marker chromosome due to del(5)(q13q15) or del(5)(q15q22).
(17) We report 2 cases of uterus didelphys with unilateral hematocolpos and ipsilateral renal agenesis with urological clinical complications.
(18) The developmental origin of arsenate-induced renal agenesis was investigated.
(19) It appears to us that bilateral vas deferens agenesis may be genetic in origin in some patients.
(20) Necropsy findings revealed multiple congenital malformations with occipital meningo-encephalocele and agenesis of the cerebellum, 6 digits on the hands and feet, polycystic kidneys.
Imperfect
Definition:
(a.) Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient.
(a.) Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
(a.) Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective.
(n.) The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense.
(v. t.) To make imperfect.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spin-spin relaxation time T2 may be estimated using multiecho pulse sequences, but the accuracy of the estimate is dependent on the fidelity of the spin-echo amplitudes, which may be severely compromised by rf pulse and static field imperfections.
(2) Politicians must make decisions every day with imperfect knowledge, knowing that many of those choices may turn out to be ineffective.
(3) The quality of reduction is often imperfect and the techniques of surgical repair are very difficult and time consuming.
(4) An important source of failure in markets and justification for government intervention in the health sector of LDCs is imperfect information.
(5) It is suggested that absence or imperfect function of this reductase enzyme is the primary lesion in this disease.
(6) Dual aspects, crystallite size and lattice imperfection related to the crystallinity were analyzed by the process of Variance and Fourier analysis based on the X-ray diffraction line profiles.
(7) The membranous portion of the interventricular septum was thickened, and the aortic valve was thickened and had imperfect coaptation.
(8) Results reveal that while dental markets are imperfectly competitive, it is unclear whether prices exceed competitive levels.
(9) What we are witnessing is the collision of two imperfect storms: the Conservative party’s turmoil over the future of taxation, and the transformation of the economy.
(10) The mechanisms underlying the initial interaction between killer cell and target and the subsequent lytic event are imperfectly understood.
(11) It is shown that imperfect correlations between proficiency and preference measures, and J-shaped distributions of preference, can be predicted by such a model.
(12) We conclude that the liver may be viewed as an imperfectly mixed compartment with regard to the availability of the metabolite which is generated from a precursor.
(13) The theory of imperfect recanalization, the theory of vascular insufficiency, and studies which have been performed to validate each of these theories were reviewed.
(14) The results of this investigation indicate that the posttransplanted deterioration of metabolic levels were possibly caused by the imperfect oxygenation due to cellular edema after blood reflow.
(15) It would be easy to efficiently cut him down with the word “rapist”, particularly when I will not face any reprimands for my own imperfect behaviour during the relationship.
(16) "We had been doing exactly as any responsible, professional journalist would – recording and trying to make sense of the unfolding events with all the accuracy, fairness and balance that our imperfect trade demands."
(17) To stand virtuously in the grandstand looking down upon a world whose best efforts in inevitably imperfect times can never match your own exalted standards is a definition of irrelevance, not virtue.
(18) Les Misérables is a game with destiny: it dramatises the gap between the imperfections of human judgments, and the perfect patterns of the infinite.
(19) Association of radiological changes with imperfection of lungs' ventilating reserve of restrictive type was found in one man who was removed from the work in exposure to beryllium, as a person with an increased risk of falling ill.
(20) Reviewing it for the Guardian , Gillian Slovo described it as "a pained examination of the difficulties posed by a freedom that was won by imperfect human beings."