(n.) Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
(n.) Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.
(v. i.) To fail; to become deficient.
(v. t.) To injure; to damage.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have cloned the phr gene that encodes DNA photolyase from Salmonella typhimurium by in vivo complementation of Escherichia coli phr gene defect.
(2) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
(3) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
(4) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(5) Seven males have been observed carrying both inherited tritan and red-green defects.
(6) Mechanisms by which a defect in the synthesis of dolichol-oligosaccharides might alter the degree of beta-1,6 branching in N-linked carbohydrates are discussed.
(7) Both Types I and II collagen are important constituents of the affected tissues, and thus defective collagens are reasonable candidates for the primary abnormality in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
(8) Ventricular septal defect types were perimembranous (six), malalignment (seven), supracristal (three), midmuscular (one), and inlet (one).
(9) Defects of several membrane proteins were found with sodium dodecyl sulfate--polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(10) After early repair of congenital cardiovascular defects, such as coarctation of the aorta, late stenosis may become a problem.
(11) The association of these defects of teeth and bone was found to be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait over four generations.
(12) They presented their clinical observations on 4 brothers from the 'G Family' who shared a constellation of findings with a generalised tendency to midline defects.
(13) Distant ischemia was distinguished from peri-infarctional ischemia by the presence of transient thallium defects in, or slow thallium washout from myocardium not supplied by the infarct-related coronary artery.
(14) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
(15) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
(16) Both models showed the expected wound-healing defects of the diabetic rats.
(17) Intercistronic complementation of these mutants with pm1493 and dl121, two SV40 mutants that are defective in agnoprotein but encode wild-type T antigen, results in an increased synthesis of agnoprotein in the infected cells.
(18) Cells defective in gpa2 fail to produce cAMP in response to glucose stimulation.
(20) This paper reports on observations of five families suffering from distinct thrombophilia due to a protein C defect.
Defector
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) If I don’t do everything by the book, what hope is there for the other defectors I know who want to go back to North Korea?” he said.
(2) Security agents have been visiting the families of defectors and telling them that it is safe for their loved ones to return, a Reuters investigation found last year.
(3) Yemen conflict: 'This war has killed everything that was beautiful' Read more “Based on the efforts of some friendly nations to reach a humanitarian ceasefire, during which the aggressive blockade is lifted and trade ships are allowed to reach Yemeni ports, and the path is opened for humanitarian assistance, we declare our agreement to the humanitarian ceasefire that begins on Tuesday,” said Sharaf Luqman, a spokesman for Yemeni army defectors who have allied with the rebels.
(4) "That's what the defectors are telling us," said Sheikh Tawfik Abu Sleiman, leader of one of the Aleppo brigades.
(5) On 27 December, Abdulrahman cited 148 violent deaths in Syria for that day: 49 rebels, 42 soldiers, three defectors, and the remaining 54 likely to be a mix of noncombatant civilians and unidentified rebels: "It isn't easy to count rebels because nobody on the ground says 'this is a rebel'.
(6) In a determined attempt to cover up the damage the two defectors caused, Carey-Foster added that senior British intelligence and defence officials should tell the US they could give them “no confidential information” about the two spies.
(7) His dependence on Tory-defector Shaun Woodward was emphasised as the Northern Ireland secretary sat beside him at Wednesday's prime minister's questions.
(8) Eighteen persons got cancer before invitation and six defectors as well.
(9) North Korea says the UN move is based on trumped-up allegations by defectors and backed by the United States and other countries seeking to overthrow its ruling regime.
(10) Updated at 11.01am GMT 8.59am GMT A very interesting tweet about police defectors from BBC’s Duncan Crawford.
(11) Authorities have also used the attacks by defectors to support their official narrative: that the unrest in Syria is the work of armed gangs and terrorists rather than true reform-seekers.
(12) Ukip's existing general election candidate in Clacton-on-Sea said he had no intention of standing aside for the Conservative defector Douglas Carswell – and even said that the Tories had been making overtures to him.
(13) Minutes after Ali Mohsen's defection, tanks belonging to the republican guards, an elite force led by the president's son Ahmed Ali, rolled into the streets of Sana'a, setting the stage for a standoff between defectors and loyalists.
(14) Assisted by Saunders, a British bureaucrat, 007 is tasked with protecting a key asset – in the book, British agent 272, in the film, Soviet defector Georgi Koskov – from a waiting assassin.
(15) According to testimonies from workers and defectors, labourers from the reclusive state said they receive almost no salaries in person while in the Gulf emirate during the three years they typically spend there.
(16) Could it be that the Tory tactic of frightening voters with the SNP worked and that enough “Conservative” Ukip defectors switched back at the last minute, whereas “Labour” Ukip defectors didn’t?
(17) Tonight [Monday] was not a particularly special night other than the fact that a number of my colleagues came together and formed a view collectively that I should be the new chief minister of the NT.” There were also reports on Tuesday that CLP defectors Alison Anderson and Larissa Lee had returned to the party to boost its numbers after resigning in protest a year ago.
(18) Warren Truss has asserted the National party’s demand for a greater share of cabinet positions as the deputy prime minister pushed back at criticism of his secret talks with Liberal defector Ian Macfarlane .
(19) Defectors’ groups estimate there are up to 65,000 North Koreans working in about 40 countries.
(20) Possible Tory defectors are likely, however, to hold back for the moment and focus on stepping up the pressure on the prime minister to adopt a tougher stance in his EU membership negotiations.