"body defect" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a physical abnormality or illness of the body. For example, "The patient was born with a severe body defect that affected the functioning of their limbs."
This report describes the reconstruction of a bilateral body defect caused by shrapnel injury.
But what if such self-consciousness about a perceived facial or body defect becomes all consuming, an obsession or paranoia that keeps the person from focusing on school or work, pursuing normal social activities, even leaving the house to shop or see a doctor?
She also had a body defect, or conformation fault, in that she had calf-knees.
It is in this active state that the N-terminal region of Pins binds to another protein called Mud (which stands for Mushroom body defect) [ 40- 42].
Active Pins can interact with Mud (mushroom body defect) directly through TPR domains and recruit Mud to the apical cortex [ 33, 34].
It was shown that Rab5 associates in vivo with lamin altering lamin disassembly and causing relocation of Mud (mushroom body defect) to the poles during mitosis.
Large animal models are highly recommended for meaningful preclinical studies, including the optimization of cement augmentation for vertebral body defects by vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty.
In particular they represent a gold standard for neural-crest-derived bone reconstruction in humans and can be used for the repair of body defects in low-risk autologous therapeutic strategies.
Perturbation of Tub4p function, either by conditional mutation or by depletion of the protein, results in spindle as well as spindle pole body defects, but does not eliminate the ability of microtubules to regrow from, or remain attached to, the spindle pole body.
They're preoccupied about imagined body defects and have a lot of complicated rituals," said Dr. Eric Hollander, of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, who did not treat Iris.
The level of body defects was enhanced roughly two-fold in the SENP3-MO-injected embryos, to around 61% (Figure 4D).
