Word: defectiveness
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...case of the Mongoloid child born with a physical defect that may be related to, but is separate from, the syndrome itself, is worth examining. (Down's Syndrome is the possession of an extra chromosome, usually on the twenty-first pair.) The physical defect can be corrected by surgery, but the Mongolism itself remains irreversible. Parental consent is, as usual, required for the corrective surgery...
...twenty-first chromosome pair. Procedures are under study which would enable doctors to determine accurately the presence of Tay-Sachs disease--a disease which causes blindness, severe retardation, and early death. This disease is common among Jews of northern European origin. Sickle-cell anemia is another race-linked genetic defect that could be identified and eliminated by the application of new techniques...
...Martin Schulkind and Elia Ayoub of the College of Medicine of the University of Florida have used transfer factor to treat effectively chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, a severe fungal infection of the skin and mucous membranes; others have used it successfully to treat agammaglobulinemia and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, a hereditary defect that leaves its victims unable to resist certain infections...
...course has another serious defect because it presents the relevant chemical reactions in the lectures, but then tests the students on a much more sophisticated level of problem-solving, without teaching the students how to solve these problems. Premeds are forced to bridge the lecture/exam gap for themselves, or else face disastrous consequences. The 11 per cent of the class who received D's or E's this year reflects the lack of being taught how to solve the problems on the exams, as much as it indicates any disinclination for hard work or for science. When a professor flunks...
...quickly as the liver adjusts to its new metabolic work load. William Lewis, born last Oct. 10 in New York City, was a rare example of a far more serious condition. His complexion remained abnormal. Even more frightening, his stools and urine indicated that he suffered from an inborn defect, biliary atresia-the absence or severe underdevelopment of tiny bile ducts emerging from the liver. William's case proved to be unusual in another respect: he was flown to Japan in the search for lifesaving corrective surgery...