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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deficiency
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dietary
▪ The consequences of starvation depend on the type of dietary deficiency from which it arises.
▪ All these are symptoms of a simple dietary deficiency but often are mistaken for normal ageing processes.
▪ No dietary deficiencies in people who lived on her soup!
▪ These unnatural cravings, called pica, may indicate a dietary mineral deficiency and are very rare.
immune
▪ Cryptosporidium is a cause of chronic diarrhoea and a proximal small intestinal mucosal enteropathy in children without immune deficiency.
▪ Carly suffers from an immune system deficiency which killed her 14-month-old brother Greig four days before she was born.
iron
▪ In iron deficiency anemia complicated by other disorders which either increase serum iron or decrease the.
▪ First, her blood showed an iron deficiency, and she showed signs of chronic-fatigue syndrome.
major
▪ Unfortunately, for bankers assessing country risk, this ratio has two major deficiencies.
▪ But even these valuable works share one major deficiency.
▪ In particular, the lack of longitudinal studies of older people in Britain is a major deficiency.
▪ Taking, firstly, class-based urban and regional sociology on its own terms, social and spatial mobility is a major deficiency.
▪ In all cases they considered the limitations of online information specific to their own needs to be a major deficiency.
▪ The major deficiency in the Academy plan is the assumption that science suffers from the end of the Cold War.
▪ But in fact there are two major and important deficiencies with them.
nutrient
▪ Plants under stress from drought, disease or nutrient deficiency are the most likely to attract insect pests.
▪ Physiological problems Finally, a few words about some physiological problems which result from nutrient deficiencies and weather conditions.
▪ You ought never to see nutrient deficiencies because they are a sign of incorrect feeding.
nutritional
▪ No evidence of nutritional deficiencies was found.
▪ Laboratory tests have two primary purposes, one of which is to detect marginal nutritional deficiencies.
▪ A poor diet, with low nutrient snacks can lead to nutritional deficiencies.
▪ The syndrome also may be seen in other conditions associated with intestinal malabsorption or nutritional deficiency.
▪ We are talking of a period and of a class in which nutritional deficiencies were commonplace.
▪ Physical examination may reveal evidence of certain nutritional deficiencies that will not be detected by dietary or laboratory methods. 2.
▪ Negative thought energies 3. Nutritional deficiency 4.
▪ Or is it an illness with nutritional deficiency at its root?
serious
▪ Our analysis showed serious deficiencies in the case for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm as it currently stands.
▪ The computer system had serious deficiencies.
▪ Janet has suffered various forms of ill health throughout most of her life, including asthma and a serious thyroid deficiency.
■ NOUN
anaemia
▪ Iron deficiency anaemia - how far to investigate?
▪ Crohn's disease is often associated with iron deficiency anaemia.
▪ Iron deficiency anaemia is commonly caused by chronic blood loss from the gastrointestinal tract.
▪ Ten patients had died all unrelated to the iron deficiency anaemia.
▪ Therefore sigmoidoscopy should be mandatory as part of the investigation of patients with iron deficiency anaemia.
▪ The need for sigmoidoscopy in patients with obscure iron deficiency anaemia is contentious.
▪ This survey also allowed us to analyse the usefulness of investigations in iron deficiency anaemia in outpatients.
▪ The need to investigate the colon in outpatients referred with iron deficiency anaemia has not previously been assessed.
enzyme
▪ The enzyme deficiency varies from absence of detectable activity to a residual activity of up to 25% or more.
▪ Neonatal physiologic jaundice due to an enzyme deficiency is hepatic in origin.
▪ It is quite probable that both IgE and enzyme deficiencies are important in causing the symptoms.
▪ Take the alpha one antitrypsin enzyme deficiency in the lung.
vitamin
▪ Assuming the same thing happens in the gut, then a vitamin deficiency might make the yeast convert to the hyphal form.
▪ Critics say that could lead to vitamin deficiencies or possible long-term effects on health such as increased incidence of cancer.
▪ I also found that I had a vitamin deficiency, and Anna-Lisa introduced me to vitamin supplements.
▪ Absorption of vital minerals can be affected with many consequences to both physical and mental health, notably through vitamin deficiency.
▪ Diet was often suggested as being the problem, possibly a vitamin deficiency being to blame.
▪ There are some illnesses and drugs that can cause vitamin deficiencies, and your doctor should advise on supplements.
▪ The existence of vitamin deficiency had been recorded long before vitamins were recognized, and successful treatment had already been introduced.
■ VERB
cause
▪ They agree that yellowing needles are caused by magnesium deficiency.
▪ The fading colours and yellowish transparent appearance are clear indications of iron chlorosis caused by deficiencies in iron and trace elements.
▪ Severe erosive oesophagitis may be a cause of iron deficiency anaemia but hiatus hernia alone seems unlikely to cause iron deficiency anaemia.
▪ There are some illnesses and drugs that can cause vitamin deficiencies, and your doctor should advise on supplements.
▪ Second, blocks may be caused by a deficiency of enzyme co-factors - that is, various vitamin or trace element deficiencies.
▪ Anaemia, caused by iron deficiency, also makes hair sparser.
▪ These can be very painful at times and also cause photophobia and a deficiency in the vision.
correct
▪ Oral supplementation with L-carnitine can correct the deficiency.
find
▪ The next is to find out if the deficiency is a result of gastrointestinal blood loss or malabsorption.
make
▪ This has now been officially recognised and it is expected that extra student places will be provided to make up the deficiency.
▪ Studentsmany of them black and Latino-would have had to make up their academic deficiencies in community college or elsewhere.
▪ How closely do they resemble these notes? Make a list of deficiencies that could be remedied by you.
▪ This closely followed a Boothferry Health directive to the Club membership to make good certain deficiencies or face closure.
▪ But what function had the saints in heaven if not to make good the deficiency?
▪ The chlorophyll traps make up their electron deficiency by grabbing them from water molecules sited close by.
remedy
▪ Many provisions of the Sale of Goods Act were designed to remedy such deficiencies in the contract.
▪ Congress should remedy both of those deficiencies.
▪ Attempts to remedy the deficiencies in these statistics suffer from a number of problems and difficulties themselves.
▪ For over a millennium believers have chipped off pieces in a faithful attempt to remedy their deficiencies.
▪ Are there adequate and appropriate resources to remedy any deficiencies which are exposed?
▪ The research to be undertaken will attempt to remedy this deficiency.
▪ Processes were scrutinized to remedy deficiencies internal to physical geography.
▪ The inevitable reduction in the amount of time likely to be given to singing challenges the Church to remedy this deficiency.
show
▪ Our analysis showed serious deficiencies in the case for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm as it currently stands.
▪ First, her blood showed an iron deficiency, and she showed signs of chronic-fatigue syndrome.
▪ Its statement of affairs showed a £279m deficiency.
suffer
▪ However, control by killing the mosquito larvae suffers from two main deficiencies.
▪ The plaintiff was born prematurely and suffered from an oxygen deficiency.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A deficiency of soil nutrients can cause the resulting crop to be disease-ridden and of very poor quality.
▪ Older women can suffer bone loss caused by estrogen deficiency.
▪ One of the symptoms of vitamin C deficiency is extreme tiredness.
▪ Over 40% of rental housing contained structural deficiencies.
▪ Women suffering from iron deficiency can take supplements in the form of tablets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Arkansas is a poor state, its deficiencies no measure of its virtue.
▪ Communities focus on capacities; service systems focus on deficiencies.
▪ The sum of evidence is now too strong to justify further placebo controlled trials in communities with vitamin A deficiency.
▪ Therefore, magnesium deficiency rarely, if ever, occurs on a dietary basis alone.
▪ They agree that yellowing needles are caused by magnesium deficiency.
▪ This deficiency proved fatal when the dollar faced a prolonged confidence crisis in the early 1970s.
▪ When centralized planning is used as the normal mode of economic control, a number of deficiencies loom into view: 1.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deficiency

Deficiency \De*fi"cien*cy\, n.; pl. Deficiencies. [See Deficient.] The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. ``A deficiency of blood.''
--Arbuthnot.

[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
--Buckle.

Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
deficiency

1630s, from deficience (mid-15c.) + -cy; or from Late Latin deficientia, from deficientem (see deficient).

Wiktionary
deficiency

n. (context uncountable English) inadequacy or incompleteness.

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WordNet
deficiency

  1. n. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" [syn: lack, want]

  2. lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" [syn: insufficiency, inadequacy] [ant: sufficiency, sufficiency]

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Wikipedia
Deficiency

A deficiency is generally a lack of something. It may also refer to:

  • A deficient number, in mathematics, a number n for which σ(n) < 2n
  • Angular deficiency, in geometry, the difference between a sum of angles and the corresponding sum in a Euclidean plane
  • Deficiency (medicine), including various types of malnutrition, as well as genetic diseases caused by deficiencies of endogenously produced proteins.
  • A deficiency in construction, an item, or condition that is considered sub-standard, or below minimum expectations
  • Genetic deletion, in genetics, is also called a deficiency
  • A deficiency judgment, in the law of real estate
  • A tax deficiency, an amount owed in taxes over and above what has been submitted in payment

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Deficiency (medicine)

In medicine, a deficiency is a lack or shortage of a functional entity, by less than normal or necessary supply or function.TheFreeDictionary > deficiency. Citing:

  • Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. © 2007
  • Miller-Keane Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. 2003
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Usage examples of "deficiency".

It requires an abler pen than mine to trace the connection which I am persuaded exists between these deficiencies and the minds and manners of the people.

Deficiency of oxygen is the cause of apnoea, and sometimes the red corpuscles themselves are so few, worn out, or destroyed, that they cannot carry sufficient oxygen, and the consequence is that the patient becomes short of breath, and when a fatal degeneration of the corpuscles ensues, he dies of asphyxia.

It was not the way of Sharp to fall back, in this deficiency of experience, on old legends and folk-tales collected in his own day, but to trust to his imagination as that was quickened by what knowledge he had of life in the inner isles and in Argyllshire, and by the very atmosphere of known places there that seemed to demand, as Stevenson put it, to have stories invented to fit them.

And bringing a ballcarrier down by dragging at the breechcloth was supposed to be outside the pale, but when it was done and resulted in a man revealed in all his deficiency, great hilarity ensued both in the crowd and among the players.

The deficiency is sometimes so subtle biochemically that it defies easy test.

In the present attempt to render into English this portion of the works of Clausewitz, the translator is sensible of many deficiencies, but he hopes at all events to succeed in making this celebrated treatise better known in England, believing, as he does, that so far as the work concerns the interests of this country, it has lost none of the importance it possessed at the time of its first publication.

The silver salmon or cohoe arrives a little later than the sockeye, but is not much used for packing except when required to make up deficiencies.

It was the kind of atmosphere that could seem either contrived and fakey, or just pleasantly and comfortably old-fashioned, depending on the skill with which it was handled and whether or not it was used to cover up deficiencies in the culinary department.

If this is not satisfactory repeat the assay, adding an extra gram of nitre for each 4 grams of lead in excess of that required, or 1 gram of flour for a 12-gram deficiency.

Should any defect or deficiency in the arrangement for giving a full supply to the guns be discovered, it is to be reported immediately to the Captain, in order that a remedy may be applied as speedily as possible, by additional men or other proper means.

He feels that the absence of appropriate cuts to depict the various herbs is quite a deficiency: but the hope is inspired that a still future Edition may serve to supply this need.

Peter Hofmeister and divers others of the magnates of the canton, were particularly loud in their plaudits on this repetition of the games, for, by a process that will be easily understood, they, who had been revelling and taking their potations in the marquees and booths while the mummers were absent, were more than qualified to supply the deficiencies of the actors by the warmth and exuberance of their own warmed imaginations.

With AIDS, you get HIV-Human ImmunoDeficiency Virus-and then maybe a few years later, it blossoms into full-blown Advanced Immune Deficiency Syndrome, putting the sufferer at risk for contracting fatal cancers or flus.

We may also adopt the ancient division of relatives into creative principles, measures, excesses and deficiencies, and those which in general separate objects on the basis of similarities and differences.

I would rather entreat each and every one of them to immortalize this approaching, fateful hour in the evolution of a World Spiritual Crusade, by a fresh consecration to their God-given mission, coupled with an instantaneous plan of action, at once so dynamic and decisive, as to wipe out, on the one hand, with one stroke, the deficiencies which have, to no small extent, bogged down the operations of the Crusade on the home front, and tremendously accelerate, on the other, the progress of the triple task, launched, in three continents, and constituting one of its preeminent objectives.