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.
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(31) The next is to find out if the deficiency is a result of gastrointestinal blood loss or malabsorption.
(32) The alleged deficiency is compensated for by a neurologically based preference for Chomskian grammars.
(33) The plaintiff was born prematurely and suffered from an oxygen deficiency.
(34) By instigating a calcium deficiency inside the cells, the drugs cause muscles lining arterial walls to relax.
(35) The research to be undertaken will attempt to remedy this deficiency.
(36) This survey also allowed us to analyse the usefulness of investigations in iron deficiency anaemia in outpatients.
(37) By the 1970s, researchers discovered that a major cause of childhood blindness in Third World countries was vitamin A deficiency.
(38) They know that any shortfall in product quality or deficiency in service is a competitive opportunity.
(39) However, it is not a problem of calcium deficiency; eating extra milk or cheese doesn't help the condition.
(40) Janet has suffered various forms of ill health throughout most of her life, including asthma and a serious thyroid deficiency.
(41) The syndrome also may be seen in other conditions associated with intestinal malabsorption or nutritional deficiency.
(42) Carly suffers from an immune system deficiency which killed her 14-month-old brother Greig four days before she was born.
(43) The need for sigmoidoscopy in patients with obscure iron deficiency anaemia is contentious.
(44) Iron deficiency anaemia is commonly caused by chronic blood loss from the gastrointestinal tract.
(45) The second reason for calcium deficiency is the fact that the body has difficulty absorbing the mineral.
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(46) Poor-quality eggshells indicate insufficient deposition of calcium and this deficiency was shown to have arisen because of increased soil acidification.
(47) Some of the clinical manifestations in the coeliac disease patient may be a result of carnitine deficiency.
(48) Vitamin D deficiency in this country is most often observed in institutionalized, elderly individuals.
(49) Failure to give you a Notice of Deficiency prevents the IRS from assessing any additional tax.
(50) Xanthinuria is a rare hereditary deficiency of xanthine oxidase, which results in hypouricemia and diminished urinary uric acid excretion.
(51) No sulphur deficiency has yet been detected as a result of falling atmospheric levels but there is a need for continued vigilance.
(52) All these are symptoms of a simple dietary deficiency but often are mistaken for normal ageing processes.
(53) Simple indicators of colorectal carcinoma would help to rationalise and improve the efficiency of the investigation of iron deficiency anaemia.
(54) Carnitine absorption from the gut is indirectly suggested by a carnitine deficiency state during carnitine deficient diets.
(55) And oxygen deficiency during the foetal stage may inhibit brain development and size at birth, with or without other defect.
(56) As is the case for calcium, correction of potassium deficiency may not be possible until the serum magnesium level is normalized.
(57) Even more surprising there are no stars: a deficiency which today usually condemns a climb to total obscurity.
(58) Iron deficiency anemia, as evidenced by a high prevalence of low hemoglobin levels, was a widespread problem.
(59) Folate deficiency causes anaemia, but occasionally is associated with neural tube defects such as spina bifida.
(60) First, her blood showed an iron deficiency, and she showed signs of chronic-fatigue syndrome.
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