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Sentence Examples An attack of inherited angioedema is treated with an injection of the C1 inhibitor, the substance that your body is deficient in. A friend has told me there is some suggestion that children who suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may be deficient in iron. In addition, fission yeast mutants deficient in the enzymes that attach Ned8p, or in the ned8 gene itself, are inviable. I told myself that my attitude, knowledge, and skill cost a patient's life and I was deficient in all those qualities that a doctor should have. It is well known that the rate of N 2 fixation in plants deficient in P is reduced. The bacteria supply the pea plants with nitrogen fixed from the air when the soils are deficient in that nutrient. Immuno deficient people and those for whom vaccine is contraindicated can also be helped. The summer growing season of kenaf corresponds with low quality forages deficient in protein in the Southeast. Phosphorus is the second most likely nutrient to be deficient in the soil for good corn yields. The survey revealed that 30 per cent of the students were deficient in Vitamin A and B, and 17.75 per cent had iron deficiency. A study of more than 600 elderly women has found that many are deficient in Vitamin D, a substance formed in the skin during exposure to the sun. The report accuses prosecutors of conducting deficient investigations or presenting inadequate evidence at the trials. Indeed, women who are deficient in vitamin D often are misdiagnosed with fibromyalgia or even somatization syndromes. When an informationally inept population must compete with one that is informationally adept, the deficient state or region always loses. Both novels are occasionally limited by deficient character and plot development. The failure of the Board to execute works is attributable to deficient planning with the result physical achievements fell short by 57 per cent. She blames deficient preparation and insufficient commitment on the part of the school, but she also notes impediments in the exams themselves. The major problems seem to be fragmentation, deficient base in popular constituencies and insufficient links between civic and political efforts. Moxa can be used on areas with poor muscle and skin tone and to vitalize deficient channels. As with impersonal constructions, referentially deficient subjects usually occur in the independent clause. Show More Sentences Exhaustively researched, The Sword and the Cross is somewhat deficient in maps and almost totally lacking in illustration. Growth hormone sensitivity in GH deficient hypopituitary adults is dependent on gender, but independent of timing of onset. The picturesque, to be sure, is equally deficient in his chirography and in his poetical productions. India is self-sufficient in wheat and paddy but deficient in other agricultural produce. Mr Carter has suggested to us that this notice of appeal was prepared in a hurry and that it is in some way deficient. Omega-3 with EHA and DPA is one nutrient that nearly everyone is dangerously deficient in. The resale of grain to villages which claimed to be deficient in food supplies hampered the flow of grain to the cities. Indeed, some seed diets fed to cage birds are known to be protein deficient and specifically deficient in tyrosine, cysteine, or methionine. There is only a four-per cent probability of the south-west monsoons being deficient. Reports that well-planned vegetarian diets are deficient in essentials are false. It is quite obvious that many of our youths today are deficient in proper values and sound discipline. Soils of extreme habitats are often alkaline, or loaded with large amounts of sodium chloride, or deficient in the major nutrients. Is it not brutish and for those not most fit rather deficient in its bounty? They were deficient, but probably not to the extent that they might be called naturals or idiots. Water entered through the roof and the water supply was unsatisfactory, being dirty in wet weather and deficient in dry. A number of designers are terrific in constructing form but deficient when it comes to engaging with content. Appraisal is a blunt instrument and as yet has probably not identified a single doctor whose performance is seriously deficient. His parents were strict disciplinarians, and his private tuition was seriously deficient. Although the work was deficient in quantity and detail, it emphasized the value of this approach in learning and teaching gross anatomy. Maxine found herself tired and lethargic and eventually consulted her GP, who informed her that she was deficient in several key minerals. Show More Sentences A diet deficient in niacin leads to glossitis of the tongue, dermatitis, weight loss, diarrhea, depression and dementia. We added copper, cobalt, selenium, molybdenum, etc to the deficient soils and transformed the plant and animal health. Medications also may be necessary to correct excess or deficient hormone production. Roses deficient in potassium, phosphorous and magnesium are more susceptible to attack by black spot and powdery mildew. With tritanopia, the person is deficient in blue and yellow perception, although he is still sensitive to red and green. Colleges are devoting ever more resources to students who are deficient in rudimental abilities. Cataract patients also tend to be deficient in vitamin A and the carotenes, lutein and zeaxanthin. Out of 36 meteorological sub-divisions in the country, 16 sub-divisions have received deficient or scanty rainfall so far, he said. Yet he struggled with contempt for his social background and deficient education. If energy levels of a corresponding organ are found deficient, it suggests meridian points to work on and rectify it. Our sample is deficient in species that would have allowed us to assess the uncertain relationships between owls and frogmouths and their allies. The mineral elements most likely to be deficient in vineyards are nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, zinc, boron, iron, manganese, and magnesium. The economy of a region was either prosperous or deficient depending on their being correctly orientated. They are not people who are not intellectually nor scholastically deficient. Then the scientists mated mice deficient in the GIP receptor with mice that lack leptin, a hormone that signals satiety. In short, his conception of natural justice is deficient both in its theoretical structure and in its practical consequences. In Being and Time Heidegger says that being along is a deficient or defective mode of being. Severely malnourished children are often deficient in vitamin A, zinc, iron, folic acid, copper, and selenium. The rapidly growing yearling is further jeopardized when twice daily feedings are already marginal or deficient in protein quality. Referentially deficient subjects are of many types, the most common of which includes inanimate subjects, expletive subjects, and subjects of the passive construction. Show More Sentences Modern pastures are deficient in many varieties of essential herbage. Is there something, er, deficient about the type of guy who earns a living saving lives, succoring the sick, abetting the needy? In fact the realisation of how important copper is for development was discovered in copper deficient areas of Australia where sheep or lambs started to develop an ataxia. Sure, they are redoubtable opponents, but brawny, one-dimensional teams deficient in natural ability will not seriously challenge the world's best. Individuals who are taurine deficient may become more susceptible to tissue damage by xenobiotic agents such as aldehydes, chlorine, and certain amines. A well-known example is xeroderma pigmentosum patients, who are deficient in excision repair and have a high incidence of skin cancer on exposure to sunlight. The same goes for the elliptical machine hunger strike, which also comes off as tonally deficient, to say the least. Renal tubular defects result in a loss of calcium and phosphate in the urine leading to children with deficient mineralization of growing bone and rickets. It was light and tasty, but rather deficient in the garlic stakes. This intellectually deficient, petulent man-child was exactly what he appeared to be and his inept, arrogant administration is a perfect reflection of him. Tofu, tempeh and other soy foods are complete proteins, but most plant proteins are deficient in one or more essential amino acids, making them incomplete. Over 2000 cases have been reported, reflecting the sensitivity of that growing gland to radioactive iodine, especially in children already deficient in iodine. And doctors also say an enzyme that helps breakdown sugar in the body, which is deficient in many diabetics, may also have an adverse effect on mental ability. Johnstown Castle Research Centre indicated that more than one-third of the tillage land was seriously deficient in the critical trace elements, copper, zinc and manganese. The scientists exposed mice deficient in both genes to a second carcinogen, DMN, which is also found in smoke but also in beer, fish meal and some preserved meats. Security management at the base was called deficient and lacking cohesion. Women use them as a yardstick for measuring their own attractiveness, thus arriving at a warped perception of their own physical attributes as being hopelessly deficient. They pointed out that recently, because of deficient psychological adjustment after divorce, child battering and children's roaming have been aggravated in the province. An extract was deemed to be deficient if, in all three trials, the ratio of intermediate to supercoiled products indicated an accumulation of intermediate topoisomers. For example, if your diet is deficient in vitamin A, vitamin B complex, vitamin C, bioflavonoids or vitamin E, a heavier than normal menstruation could result. Show More Sentences But after mechanical fishing dredges destroyed the oyster reefs early in the 20th Century, the water became increasingly turbid and oxygen deficient. If that was not the case, the law would be seriously deficient in leaving uncompensated a person whose replacement job was of short, possibly very short duration. Those with less than an octet are often called electron deficient and are typical of certain elements with an odd number of electrons, such as boron and nitrogen. Where the moral formation of a people is deficient, the general will malign, or historical circumstance unpropitious, democracy is quite unambiguously wicked in its results. While several councils have been fined for signing-off deficient work, in other cases councils have escaped responsibility because builders used independent certifiers. However, China is relatively deficient in reserves of sylvine and boron. A partial answer to this is that mere things only present themselves to mere beholding, but mere beholding is only a deficient mode of concern or engagement. Since then, she has had a hysterectomy and is no longer iron deficient. Low-browed individuals were deficient in the faculties that would enable them to feel the subtle attractions exercised by imponderable fluids on the rod. If in addition to headaches you have muscle cramps in your legs, difficulty sleeping, or pins and needles in your hands and feet, your diet may be deficient. His egomania, he wrote, was the other side of deficient self-esteem. If the doctor fails to recognize the difference between these two and attempts to purge an endogenous disease, the deficiency will become more deficient. Laboratory mice deficient in the gene were found to consume excessive amounts of alcohol, preferring ethanol to water and evincing highly anxious behavior in a maze test. Similarly, she has not observed or complained about any deficient workmanship in the insulation and drywall, and she believes that none exists with respect to her residence. Rainfall is scarce, and water proves deficient in some provinces where water crisis can happen sometimes. Mice deficient for the vesicular acetylcholine transporter are myasthenic and have deficits in object and social recognition. Yeast mitochondrial DNA mutators with deficient proofreading exonucleolytic activity. The micronutrient iron is deficient in these regions, and adding it can lead to the formation of phytoplankton blooms. The mandible and central symphysis area were deficient, and the entire mentum was underprotruded and featured palpable clefting. A large number of normal trichromats and colour deficient people must be examined to obtain accurate figures. Show More Sentences Vitamin K helps blood coagulate, which means brain and intestinal hemorrhaging can occur in very young infants who are deficient. However, the CT of patient 3 did demonstrate the presence of a dilated internal auditory canal fundus and a deficient modiolar base. The IUCN lists both species as data deficient on their Red List of endangered species because of this issue. Teachers who practice transcultural pedagogy do not see their black students as deficient, behind, from broken homes, uneducable. When injected with the cells, immunologically deficient mice with an early form of leukemia remained cancerfree for at least 2 months. Chronic problems include a shortage of skilled labour and a deficient infrastructure. Inhibition of these neurons, which also activate pituitary adenylate cyclase, decreased feeding in calorically deficient mice. These fungi facilitate the uptake of nutrients, especially phosphorus from nutrient deficient soils in exchange for host photosynthates. The literature remains deficient, however, in long-term studies assessing the use of third generation ceramics in osteonecrotic patients. The other population is deficient in the activity of flavanone 3-hydroxylase. They could be equal as long as they dropped their culture which was deficient compared to white culture. Similarly, Nicholson described Robert's reign as deficient and that his lack of the skills of governance led to internal strife. This is more common among animals inhabiting regions where the soil is deficient in these minerals. Gaelic terms unique to Canada exist, though research on the exact number is deficient. Soils in Western Australia are very old, highly weathered and deficient in many of the major nutrients and trace elements. The remedy for this deficient rule is to make causation a rebuttable presumption. The road network suffered from inadequate load capacity, poor surfacing and deficient roadside servicing. However, a significant proportion of freshwater species are listed as data deficient, and more field surveys are needed. One in five preschool age children are vitamin A deficient and one in two are anemic. Lincoln's foreign policy was deficient in 1861 in terms of appealing to European public opinion. Show More Sentences Anoxic events are situations in which the middle and even the upper layers of the ocean become deficient or totally lacking in oxygen. A simple gum lift would not produce the desired results, as the actual mesiodistal root dimension is deficient. The Norway spruce tolerates acidic soils well, but does not do well on dry or deficient soils. Earlier reports of only fruit bats being deficient were based on smaller samples. On the British side, the eight armoured cruisers were deficient in both speed and armour protection. Grape powder polyphenols attenuate atherosclerosis development in apolipoprotein E deficient mice and reduce macrophage atherogenicity. In aqueous tear deficient dry eye, lacrimal glands do not produce enough tears, whereas meibomian gland dysfunction results in evaporative dry eye. Nascobal is Nastech's FDA approved therapy for the treatment of vitamin B12 deficient patients with Crohn's disease, Colitis, pernicious anemia, and certain other conditions. They reported certain occupational risks and disbenefits to these women workers including low salaries, and deficient enforcement of healthy and safety regulations. A syndrome of methylmalonic aciduria, homocysteine, megaloblastic anemia and neurologic abnormalities in a vitamin B12 deficient breast-fed infant of a strict vegetarian. If something is achromatous, what is it lacking or deficient in? Ivan IV was succeeded by his son Feodor, who was mentally deficient. Individuals who are deficient in leptin fail to initiate puberty. We will tackle this highly challenging question by studying the immune responses to vaccination in genetic mouse models in which skin innervation by nociceptors is deficient. Many other soils around the world are deficient in zinc, leading to deficiency in both plants and humans, and zinc fertilizers are widely used to solve this problem. Numerous lesser reforms were also introduced, some of which were of great benefit to certain segments of British society, such as the mentally deficient and the blind. Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace. With no paved runways, the country was aeronautically deficient. If we don't meet the challenge, our residents will continue to experience weight loss and dissatisfaction, and facilities will continue to be found nutritionally deficient. Their conservation statuses are either at least concern or data deficient. Show More Sentences Mice deficient in cellular glutathione peroxidase show increased vulnerability to malonate, 3-nitropropionic acid, and 1-methyl-4-phenyl-l,2,5,6-tetrahydropyridine. The introductions are sometimes deficient as when Carey prints a martyrology prepared by Oengus the Culdee without relating the text to the Culdees' reforming program. Nearly two billion people in the developing world are deficient in zinc. The present interest of this type of lines and its nonembryonic origin is the possibility of establishing specific lines of deficient patients for clinical research. Examples from Classical Literature She desired to protect them, and often felt that they could protect her, excelling where she was deficient. A deficient or excessive development of the lingual frenulum may also interfere with the movements of the tongue. Lincoln was teasled as the court sustained a, demurrer about his papers being deficient. We are somewhat deficient in the faculty of self-examination and self-criticism. If Mr. chiseller was deficient in the finer sympathies of our nature, he was endowed with a rare spirit of practical readiness. Some of the latter is so deficient as to afford colours nearly as fugitive as those of Brazil wood and quercitron. Whenever it is so the activity of the ganglionic system must be in excess, or that of the cerebro-spinal system must be deficient. When exercise is denied to graminivorous and omnivorous animals this is tantamount to a deficient supply of oxygen. Among the coin he tendered was a gold piece deficient in value by the amount of half a soldo. Than these huts nothing more rude in construction, or deficient in conveniency, can be imagined. The apperceptive expectancy, practically nil in the reading of nonsense material, must be decidedly deficient in all poor reading. The store-house was well-supplied with small arms, particularly muskets, but sadly deficient in ammunition. The solution is deficient in cyanide, and too large a current is being passed. In cypripedium, while the ordinary stamen of the outer row is deficient, two of the inner series are present. Sometimes he is sure she is deficient in understanding, and at others that her temper only is in fault. Sir John was not, on his side, deficient in attention to his own interests. This man generally has cautiousness and Continuity well developed, and Hope deficient. Not to be deficient in interest, Clennam asked what he might be doing there? Not rarely does it happen that acromegaly attacks the side most deficient in nerve supply. These people are, anthropologically as well as proverbially, narrow-chested and deficient in lung capacity. Show More Sentences Name from, to be deficient, alluding to the absence of pappus. In all these respects the Austrian archduchess was woefully deficient. That Bostonian would be deficient in wit who failed to enjoy this remark. In buildings of interest Cardiganshire is singularly deficient. For the cumbrian Heroic Age our information is sadly deficient. By that good lady the Houris are said to be held in deficient esteem. He might as well say that John Bunyan was deficient in ethical instincts. It is manner in which the literature of all nations is deficient. Fetuses deficient at their extremities, or have a duplicature of parts. His skin was so unwholesomely deficient in the natural tinge, that he looked as though, if he were cut, he would bleed white. The hydrochloric acid generally is deficient in cases of scurvy. When the parts are deficient, the flowers are called barren or infertile. His idea of horror and of what excites horror is so lamentably deficient. Replace the superstructure of the structurally deficient Bernheisel Bridge over Conodoguinet Creek in the township. Jennings deficient either in curiosity after petty information, or in a disposition to communicate it. This is a sign that the bath is deficient in potassium cyanide. And, according to one reviewer, the deficient sense of humour. The Fullerton stock had never been deficient in this particular. A structurally deficient bridge has problems with a major component, such as advanced deterioration, and needs rehabilitation or replacement. The group said more than a quarter of Washington's 7,840 bridges were considered structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Show More Sentences He charges him with being deficient in business management and thriftless. They found them deficient in trigonometry and canned them off the team. Though deficient in neither of these qualities, he had met an enemy every way his equal. The latter, on the other hand, may be overbaked and deficient in weight. While there are 2,000-plus fewer structurally deficient crossings than there were in 2013, a seemingly endless backlog of bridges needing significant repair remains. It is not too much to say, that the deliberate employer of a cut-glass shade, is either radically deficient in taste, or blindly subservient to the caprices of fashion. He felt inclined to be communicative with this silent man, who possessed so obviously all the good masculine qualities in which Katharine now seemed lamentably deficient. In reply to incessant queries, he communicates not only all he knows but a good deal more, and if there be any information deficient still he is at no loss to supply it. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of deficient? Words that rhyme with deficient What is the adverb for deficient? What is the adjective for deficient? What is the noun for deficient? Translations for deficient Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words deficiency deficiencies defibrillators defibrillator defibrillation defibrillating deficiently deficit deficit financing deficits deficit spending defied 9-letter Words Starting With d de def defi defic defici deficie deficien