Word: defectiveness
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...reported that the urine of her two retarded children had a strangely pungent odor. Dr Følling took the trouble to find out why: the children's urine contained phenylpyruvic acid. As a result of his work, it is now known that because of a genetic defect, such children lack an enzyme essential to the metabolism of phenylalanine, a constituent of most protein foods. Within a few weeks after birth, phenylpyruvic acid inflicts permanent damage on the brain. But now the defect can be promptly detected, and children started early on a special diet escape nearly...
...Friday last, a situation developed of which I hesitate to tell the House-but I must tell the House." Then, in a voice that quivered with cold rage, the Prime Minister said that according to a story confided to him by an M.P., Vassall, 38, was actually planning to defect to Russia when he was arrested last September. Grimly, but without judging the accuracy of the story. Macmillan told the rest: Vassall had intended to go first to Italy, where he was to join his former boss, Thomas Galbraith, who had been Civil Lord of the Admiralty until three years...
Supply & Demand. With the isolation of HGH, Dr. Li pointed the way toward effective treatment of children dwarfed because of a defect in their pituitary glands. But he is well aware of the difficulties still ahead before such treatment will be practical. Other hormones can be extracted from lower animals and used to treat humans, but growth hormone from lower animals has no effect on human subjects. HGH that can be used on humans must be obtained from humans who have just died-a source that is not likely ever to meet the demand...
...official opening, its 50 beds were filled with patients suffering from skull fractures, Parkinson's disease, tumors of the brain and spinal cord, and assorted other examples of the 200 human ills loosely classed as neurological. It had already undertaken its first operation, for a temporal-lobe defect causing epilepsy. The 13-member team in the operating room included an electronics engineer, a neurophysiologist, a neuroanesthesiologist, an electroencephalographer, and a behavioral psychologist...
...Fifth Anomaly. Most blue babies, so called from the color of their fingertips and lips, suffer from a set of four inborn defects in the heart and arteries, known as Fallot's tetralogy. The effect is to recirculate much blood from which oxygen has been naturally removed in the veins, and send only part of it to the lungs for re-oxygenation. The Taussig-Blalock operation, devised years before open-heart surgery with a heart-lung machine became possible, is a compromise: it consists of purposely creating a fifth defect-a connection from the aorta to the pulmonary artery...