(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.
Disown
Definition:
(v. t.) To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.
(v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge or allow; to deny.
Example Sentences:
(1) Disowned by family and despised by public opinion, she is now in prison.
(2) I have disowned him Ibrohim Kurbonov The International Crisis Group also believe the situation in central Asia is rapidly deteriorating, as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan unites with Isis.
(3) Within hours of the judge Hans-Joachim Eckert publishing his summary of Garcia’s 430-page report, which effectively cleared Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022 of serious wrongdoing and praised Blatter and the process, the US attorney had disowned it .
(4) So perhaps the most surprising thing about the Roberts affair is the speed and frankness with which his own bosses publicly disowned him.
(5) I've never posted a picture of my child on it and it transpires that was wise, because my best friend would have disowned me.
(6) While promising to investigate Henwood's comments, Ukip has declined to disown him outright, instead claiming the party was the victim of smear campaigns orchestrated by other parties alarmed at Ukip's success in the polls.
(7) He had also threatened to hang himself, and had been disowned by his mother and two sisters for being violent and aggressive.
(8) In April 1994, the Saudi government stripped Bin Laden of his citizenship and his family disowned his actions.
(9) In many cases tabloid newspapers published stories identifying men or women who were subsequently disowned by their family or assaulted in the street.
(10) Unusually, the BND’s analysis was disowned by the German government after the Saudis complained.
(11) The EGAF report has now been disowned by the original study's co-authors , the European Climate Foundation.
(12) Her plans were disowned by Cameron in the Commons when the pressure became too great, giving her the unlikely status of the first coalition Conservative martyr.
(13) These include (1) disownment and redirection of an intolerable experience to another, (2) manipulation of the recipient in an attempt to control, and (3) an induction of congruent responses in the recipient.
(14) Is Labour not letting us all down by not hounding Osborne, demanding details, making it plain that if the turkeys do vote for this Christmas, it will be the type that even Scrooge would disown?
(15) But when Parnell’s secret affair with Kitty O’Shea blew open in 1890, Gladstone disowned him – and the home rulers made the fatal mistake of sacking the charismatic Parnell in order to keep in with the Liberals.
(16) What if the claims made for neuroscience are so extreme that most neuroscientists would disown them?
(17) Farage disowned the entire 2010 Ukip manifesto – and not in the open manner of an honest politician admitting to past mistakes.
(18) But less than 24 hours after his comments disowning the book were published, a statement from Talese’s publisher Grove Press revealed a change of heart.
(19) In fairness to Cameron, he understands this and disowns the "bonfire" phrase as simplistic.
(20) Garcia has disowned Eckert’s summary of his 430-page report, which effectively cleared Russia and Qatar.