Synonym: inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, want. Similar words: efficiency, sufficiency, proficiency, inefficiency, science fiction, deficit, efficient, sufficient. Meaning: [dɪ'fɪʃnsɪ] 
n. 1. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable 2. lack of an adequate quantity or number.
n. 1. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable 2. lack of an adequate quantity or number. 
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(1) Deficiency in vitamins/Vitamin deficiency can lead to illness.
(2) Pregnant women often suffer from iron deficiency.
(3) Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency in their diet.
(4) Symptoms of anaemia include weakness, fatigue and iron deficiency.
(5) AIDS is an acronym for "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome".
(6) Vitamin C deficiency can ultimately lead to scurvy.
(7) Vitamin deficiency in the diet can cause illness.
(8) Severe iron deficiency can cause developmental delay and growth retardation.
(9) Deficiency of red corpuscles is caused by a lack of iron.
(10) During the war children suffered from a deficiency of food.
(11) It's a chicken and egg situation. Does the deficiency lead to the eczema or has the eczema led to certain deficiencies?
(12) We better do something about this deficiency right now.
(13) Oral supplementation with L-carnitine can correct the deficiency.
(14) Crohn's disease is often associated with iron deficiency anaemia.
(15) Iron deficiency anaemia - how far to investigate?
(16) But even these valuable works share one major deficiency.
(17) Doctors refer to this as secondary lactase deficiency.
(18) Negative thought energies 3. Nutritional deficiency 4.
(19) Anaemia, caused by iron deficiency(http://sentencedict.com), also makes hair sparser.
(20) Its statement of affairs showed a ￡279m deficiency.
(21) A deficiency of vitamin D results in rickets.
(22) Other groups with possible relative deficiency would be those with malabsorption and acute or chronic infection.
(23) Plants under stress from drought, disease or nutrient deficiency are the most likely to attract insect pests.
(24) The enzyme deficiency varies from absence of detectable activity to a residual activity of up to 25% or more.
(25) This is, however, a deficiency in modern academic scholarship rather than in the paper-based systems themselves.
(26) If you have great talents, industry will improve them. If you have but moderate abilities[sentencedict.com], industry will supply their deficiency.
(27) Opacity of the eye lens can be induced by deficiency of certain vitamins.
(28) If you have great talents, industry will improve them;if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
(29) I' ve been prescribed iron tablets to make up the deficiency.
(30) They did blood tests on him for signs of vitamin deficiency.
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