On other occasions, he said, the prosecutors go before grand juries for a second time to correct a defect in the charges or because they have overlooked a significant fact or element.
Feb. 29 is designed to correct a defect in the Western calendar, which would go out of sync with Easter and other religious holidays and the seasons without the use of the leap day, said Geoff Chester, a spokesman for the United States Naval Observatory, the government's timekeeper.
7 of these patients were simultaneously subjected to another surgery to correct a defect in the abdominal wall.
By contrast, once a species has become asexual it is unlikely to regain sexual reproduction, both because reversion that specifically corrects a defect is a relatively rare event, and because selection on MAT and meiosis genes would have been relaxed while the organism was reproducing asexually, allowing further deleterious mutations to accumulate.
They had, for the first time in the United States, corrected a deadly heart defect in a fetus.
Mr. Helms describes having heart surgery as a teenager to correct a congenital defect.
At another, Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, showed a photograph of a 21-week-old fetus he said had been spared an abortion by doctors who operated, in the womb, to correct a birth defect.
He takes us into an intensive care ward to meet nine-year-old Nguyen Van Tan, who two weeks before had open-heart surgery to correct a birth defect thought to be connected to dioxin poisoning.
Professor Sian Harding, head of the British Heart Foundation Centre of Regenerative Medicine at Imperial College London, who helped develop the treatment, said: "It's important to remember that the therapy is not correcting a gene defect.
Cytotoxic drugs or therapeutic DNA for targeted chemotherapy is attached by functionalizing the polymer or metal coating to correct a genetic defect.
