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Defective mitochondria can slow down or prevent the growth of a fertilised egg, preventing conception.
Defective mDNA from a mother's egg can be replaced with healthy mDNA from a donor.
Defective MDNA from an egg can be replaced with healthy MDNA from a donor egg to prevent harmful mutations being passed on.
Defective connective tissue leads to fragile capillaries, resulting in abnormal bleeding.
Defective cholesterol biosynthesis in Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome.
Defective types of psychoses are the most interesting kinds, like the maniacs, the melancholiacs, the phobiacs, the paranoiacs, the neurasthenics, the hysterical, etc.
In fact most people do not realise there are at least eight different classifications of colour defective vision plus individual variations.
The list of faults included defective tyres, faulty brakes and defective steering.
This defective recovery of DNA replication suggests an inability to coordinate lesion bypass or to initiate new replicons.
This could involve the expression in a yeast mutant, which is defective for an analogous transport system.
Once the buyer has shown goods to be defective, strict liability arises for their consequences.
Responses to GIP have been shown to be defective in type 2 diabetic patients.
A further 16 charges, relating to driving with a defective speed limiter, were found proven.
It is also thought by some authorities that bottle-fed babies are more likely to develop defective appestats than those that are breast-fed.
All the lions and lionesses here are of a hybrid stock and thus are prone to producing defective offspring, it is pointed out.
Will this bizarre heist sizzle like a bottle rocket or fizzle like a defective firecracker?
The indictment was not duplicitous or in any way defective, but accurately encapsulated that allegation.
All three cars made it to a sideroad without further incident, and the defective driver came out to assess the damage.
The second exception to the general rule occurs when a party is at fault in employing wrong or defective procedures.
Use of defective tack is not a risk of horseback riding that an equine provider is unable to eliminate.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Defective calcification of the forming bone is one of the principal characteristics of rachitis.
Defective metre and sense, owing to the loss of a hemistich, but the sense is complete.
This convolution is comparatively defective in animals generally, but more developed in birds of superior vocal powers.
The first type of family is often termed aristogenic and the second or defective type, cacogenic.
In cases of anasarca, the skin, kidneys, and bowels are very defective in their operation.
And they that think it culpably defective in phrase, aptness, or elegancy of style.
When he emerged, it was with the avowed belief that the armature had been defective when received.
Brunonian System, a system which regards and treats diseases as due to defective or excessive excitation, as sthenic or asthenic.
An overflow is provided, discharging into the open air to allow the water to escape should the ball valve become defective.
Short of cases of certifiable insanity there are a number of prisoners who are mentally defective.
It is due to defective development of the embryo and is as a rule found in association with cleft palate.
Another frequent abnormality is cleft palate, a fissure in the palate, due to defective development.
Jimmy has so long lived away from Brownsville that his memory is defective.
The corner of the 'W' instead of being clear and distinct, is blunt and defective.
It is obvious that a defective vacuum may or may not prevent an engine from starting, according to the degree of defectiveness.
Of this the English version is as defective as our school-book account of the Revolution.
So far as we fail to do this our view of divine truth is defective and disproportioned.
If he comprehends only slowly or fails to understand, he is a dullard or a defective.
The courts of equity also will interfere in some cases of defective execution in order to carry out the intentions of the settlor.
In many cases which have been described as primary atrophy the histological investigation of the stomach has been very defective.
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