(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.
Exile
Definition:
(n.) Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country.
(n.) The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.
(v. t.) To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.
(a.) Small; slender; thin; fine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(2) Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia 20 years later.
(3) He is not the only jailed or exiled opponent of the CCP.
(4) Many have called for the return of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Buddhist leader revered by many Tibetans.
(5) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
(6) However, internal divisions arose within the army, and by July 1985 Obote was once again on the ignominious road to exile, first to Kenya, and then to Zambia, where fellow independence leader Kenneth Kaunda allowed him to stay.
(7) Dali Tambo [son of exiled ANC president Oliver] approached me to form a British wing of Artists Against Apartheid, and we did loads of concerts, leading up to a huge event on Clapham Common in 1986 that attracted a quarter of a million people.
(8) Pallo Jordan , the ANC's chief propagandist in exile during the apartheid era, made no effort to hide his emotions.
(9) said a colleague, referring to the former Chadian dictator, who had been living in gilded exile in Dakar since his overthrow in December 1990.
(10) Unsurprisingly, Romney is polling ahead of his rival among Cuban Americans in Miami, where exiles have traditionally supported successive Republican candidates for their hardline stance against the communist regime of Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl.
(11) The crackdown has alarmed activists and outspoken intellectuals, with some resorting to exile.
(12) Irritated by a press conference in Qatar at which the Taliban attempted to portray themselves as a government in exile, Karzai suspended talks on a long-term security deal to keep US troops in Afghanistan after Nato leaves in 2014.
(13) The exiled municipal authorities agreed – perhaps sealing the fate of the city even should it be cleared one day for repopulation.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yemen government ground forces and Saudi-led air strikes attack Houthi militias The blockade – which is also being enforced in the air and on land – has choked a fragile economy already staggering under the impact of a six-month civil conflict pitting Yemeni forces loyal to the President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, now exiled in Riyadh, against Houthi rebels allied to his predecessor and rival, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
(15) The regime maintains tight controls over all religious institutions in the country: Islamic, Christian, Druze etc,” said Ammar Abdulhamid , a Syrian dissident and democracy activist living in exile in Washington.
(16) They have already forced government exporters to sell their dollars, and same will happen for banks I guess, so in a sense, capital controls are already in place,” said Sergei Guriev, an exiled economist who fled Russia after criticising the Kremlin.
(17) The exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has said he has “no obligations” to Vladimir Putin as he outlined his plans to take on the Russian government in London.
(18) Security forces were also reported to be preparing to attack al-Bayda after protesters blocked the airport runway to prevent reinforcements arriving, according to one exile group.
(19) Yanukovych is insisting he remains president of Ukraine, despite being in exiled in Russia.
(20) Fresh flowers have been placed on the grave of the exiled Polish prime minister Władysław Sikorski, buried in the town after he died in an air crash in Gilbratar in 1943.His remains were removed to Poland in 1993 after the fall of communism.