The phrase 'anatomical defect' is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, you may use it when writing about a medical condition that affects the body's anatomy, such as "The patient was diagnosed with an anatomical defect in the heart."
"This is a device trying to make an anatomical defect a part of the disease process," Dr. Norman S. Kato, a Los Angeles cardiac surgeon, complained at the meeting.
In "Volume A," a 1998 book, he arranged information about his art and life into a cross-referenced encyclopedia that includes entries on sheep (he raised them as a youth in rural California); the movie "Car Wash" (he was crazy about it but not quite sure why); cocaine; Brancusi; and Bert, his father's dog, born with an anatomical defect that caused its anus to be almost on its back.
First, anatomical defect is related.
Surgical factors include large anatomical defect and denervation of related muscles.
This symptom has been correlated to an anatomical defect on the anterior uterine wall.
With a fixed strut diameter of 0.45 mm and a mean cell size of 2.2 mm, a tetrahedral structural porous scaffold was designed for a simulated anatomical defect derived from computed tomography (CT) data of a human mandible.
"Is it a matter of would it look better?" Dr. Kosovsky said, "or of whether you're making the dog less uncomfortable by not having its eyelashes rubbing against the eyeball all day?" In many types of pedigreed dogs, overbreeding has resulted in anatomical defects that can make surgical nips and tucks of flesh all but unavoidable.
Anatomical defects or disease can slow down or speed up the propagation of electrical impulses, causing them to arrive out of the normal rhythm, or can turn the impulses back on their path, short-circuiting the pacemaker.
Hence, there is still scope for revolutionary new strategies to correct vascular anatomical defects.
(If disrupting a given gene caused cellular or anatomical defects related to abnormal Hedgehog signaling, the researchers knew the gene was a key part of the pathway).
The embryos survived long enough to have distinct anatomical defects, including missing lower limbs and digits--and the absence of the entire lower urinary tract and penis.
