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The senior coroner for North West Wales, Kate Robertson, said translated notes from the surgeon, Dr Ramazan Azar, described how there had been a 3-4mm "defect" in the aorta artery when the operation began, leading to bleeding.

From BBC

Thousands of ballots are expected to be tossed in the upcoming election for this technical defect.

From Slate

Why should there be a pathway back to the establishment for those golfers who disrupted the sport’s eco-system and took millions to defect to the upstarts?

From BBC

One of the dangers may come as a surprise to homeowners, as even relatively newer homes may have this defect.

Recent DNA analysis of the remains revealed that the child died when he was about one year and four months old, probably of a congenital defect called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition which makes the walls of one of the ventricles in the heart thicken until they can no longer pump enough blood to keep a body alive.

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