Definition: 1. The state of not having, or not having enough. 2. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable. 3. Lack of an adequate quantity or number.
Use 'deficiency' in a sentence:
1. AIDS is an acronym for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
2. Other people can help us compensate for our mental and emotional deficiencies, much as a wooden leg can compensate for a physical deficiency ．
3. It's a chicken and egg situation. Does the deficiency lead to the eczema or has the eczema led to certain deficiencies?
4. Due to the furiousness of competition and comparative deficiency of management, it also presents some inner problems before us.
5. Deficiency of red corpuscles is caused by a lack of iron.
6. What is iron-deficiency anemia?
7. Iron deficiency anemia.
8. The most serious deficiency in NATO's air defence is the lack of an identification system to distinguish friend from foe.
9. This deficiency can be dealt with using the Velocity Verlet algorithm.
10. Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency is a disease.
11. studies show that long-term zinc megadoses can cause copper deficiency.
12. AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
13. I failed in my career as a writer of fiction entirely because of deficiencies in the education system.
14. Nutrient deficiency is not easy to cure.
15. Cosmetics do not always cover up the deficiencies of nature.
16. Vitamin C deficiency can ultimately lead to scurvy.
17. During the war children suffered from a deficiency of food.
18. "There were some proponents of the bigger dairy industry in Laos to improve a calcium deficiency," says Durst, whose favorite is fried wasp.
19. Iron deficiency is characterized by chlorosis between veins in young leaves.
20. The deficiency of zinc may lead to hypogonadal dwarfs.
21. Their research could eventually lead to new medicines for epilepsy, diabetes and other metabolism deficiencies.
22. Studies have found a significant reduction in levels of iodine deficiency since the requirement was put in place.
23. Opacity of the eye lens can be induced by deficiency of certain vitamins.
24. For example, the hereditary hemochromatosis mutation protects carriers from iron-deficiency because the mutated gene allows increased efficiency of iron absorption.
25. In time, the infection became known as "Acquired Immure Deficiency Syndrome"
26. Chlorophyll, although exquisitely evolved to capture the energy of sunlight, can sometimes be overwhelmed by it, especially in situations of drought, low temperatures, or nutrient deficiency.
27. But in fact I was alluding to my physical deficiencies.
28. Fortunately, color deficiency is not a serious medical problem.
29. So there's a deficiency here.
30. Though I have got the first prize, I have many deficiencies.
31. When foods from different plant sources are eaten together, deficiency in one is compensated for by sufficiency in another.
32. There are thirteen or more of them, and if any is missing, a deficiency disease becomes apparant.
33. A major deficiency is the lack of dynamic muscle interactions for control and proprioception.
34. Many symptoms, such as fatigue, can result from vitamin deficiencies.
35. One of the gravest structural deficiencies in EM is poor infrastructure.
36. For example, heavier women are less likely to develop calcium deficiency than thin women.
37. Pellagra is a disease that results from niacin deficiency.
38. Cosmetics do not cover up the deficiencies of nature.
39. Brittle nails can result from biotin or iron deficiencies and circulation problems.
40. The first sign of potassium deficiency is a white speckling or freckling of the leaf blades.
41. There are serious deficiencies in the numbers of suitable aircraft.
42. In that light, aging itself might be seen as something treatable, the way you would treat high blood pressure or a vitamin deficiency.
43. They did blood tests on him for signs of vitamin deficiency.
44. In parts of South America, vitamin-A deficiency is a serious health problem, especially among children.
45. Conditions associated with mucosal atrophy include iron deficiency, some vitamin deficiencies, and sideropenic dysphagia.
46. It is diligence that makes up for deficiency.
47. The deficiency of this plan is very clear and it can't possibly succeed.
48. She may have an autoimmune deficiency.
49. This lack of guidance is a major deficiency.
50. No addition was made to permanent staff in 1938 to meet this striking deficiency.
51. The faculty deficiency is the biggest problem.
52. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
53. Many other unexplained nonparasitic disease of different plant species were shown to result from born deficiency.
54. Now I know my deficiency, I will correct this on time.
55. Vitamin deficiency in the diet can cause illness.
