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What does deficiency mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
  2. (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
  3. (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
  4. (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
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For individual syndromes, additional acupoints were added to correct the deficiency of the relevant organs.
But then, overdosing on received wisdom and political correctness does tend to result in irony deficiency.
Cytokine release requires the adherence to bone, so estrogen deficiency is unlikely to stimulate cytokine secretion from circulating cells.
The most commonly encountered disorders are coagulation factor VIII deficiency, coagulation factor IX deficiency and von Willebrand's disease.
In people with Addison's disease, the adrenal cortex is destroyed, leading to a deficiency or absence of the hormones it produces.
The introduction of the ackee and the mango at the end of the eighteenth century did help to reduce this vitamin A deficiency.

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