  In this paper, a non-integrated defect relation for meromorphic maps from
complete K\"ahler manifolds $M$ into smooth projective algebraic varieties $V$
intersecting hypersurfaces located in $k$-subgeneral position is proved. The
novelty of this result lies in that both the upper bound and the truncation
level of our defect relation depend only on $k$, $\dim_{\,\mathbb{C}}(V)$ and
the degrees of the hypersurfaces considered. In addition, this defect relation
recovers Hirotaka Fujimoto [Theorem 1.1; MR0884636 (88m:32049); Japan. J. Math.
(N.S.) 11 (1985), no. 2, 233-264.] when subjected to the same conditions.
