A deficiency of vitamin C causes scurvy. From LearnThat.org.
Water is the critical deficiency in desert regions. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It has been demonstrated that a blood protein deficiency is the cause of this inherited illness. From Wordnik.com. [Hives, urticaria, angiodema, allergic reactions] Reference
Chapman's major deficiency is the same as Keirsey's. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
Some diabetic people have an insulin deficiency so they take a shot. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Separated at Birth?] Reference
Some depressed people have a serotonin deficiency ... they take a pill. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Separated at Birth?] Reference
Excellent rush end whose only deficiency is a lack of ideal height (6-2). From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com] Reference
The standard treatment for ADA deficiency is frequent injections of PEG-ADA. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: More Than Human by Ramez Naam] Reference
Over in the National League, the most glaring deficiency is in the catching ranks. From Wordnik.com. [Lack of stellar AL aces kicks up Bedard bucks] Reference
Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency: a hereditary disease that can cause hepatitis and liver failure. From Wordnik.com. [Who needs a liver transplant?] Reference
For this picture, though - original source and attribution unknown - the deficiency is remedied. From Wordnik.com. [Part 3 - Act 1: The dead baby] Reference
Palmer offers an experiment to demonstrate the different results, once this deficiency is considered. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
While most people have too little calcium, true Vitamin D deficiency is rare, about 1 in 5000 people. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
She also says the doctor might want to run a blood test because vitamin D deficiency is hard to detect. From Wordnik.com. [Lack of vitamin D rampant in infants, teens] Reference
The latter disorder is characterized by a deficiency of vital digestive enzymes produced by the pancreas. From Wordnik.com. [You Raising Your Child] Reference
As soon as a deficiency is identified, we immediately inform industry players involved in the investigation. From Wordnik.com. [Our Collective Role in Transportation Safety] Reference
Lack of sun exposure, therefore, leads to vitamin deficiency diseases of the bones like rickets and osteomalacia. From Wordnik.com. [Adding Vitamin D to a Nondairy Diet] Reference
Our defects we may recognize; our deficiencies we seldom do, and the love deficiency is the most hopeless of human limitations. From Wordnik.com. [Comrades] Reference
Vitamin deficiency also causes gum disease and allows fingernails to become brittle or causes nail biting, further affecting growth. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Tornambe, M.D.: Does Stress Make You Ugly?] Reference
Magnesium deficiency is implicated, in addition to depression and heart disease, in migraine, cancer, and a horde of other bad things. From Wordnik.com. [Why magnesium is like vitamin D and how it cures depression « Isegoria] Reference
It was explained that the deer had a protein deficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Do deers eat small birds and small animal ?] Reference
Another deficiency is the complexity of some of the menus. From Wordnik.com. [Brighthand.com Handheld News and Reviews] Reference
To supply the deficiency has been the ambition of the translator. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] Reference
Now, the Redskins have a clear nickname deficiency since Fred Smoot left. From Wordnik.com. [Teammates call LaRon Landry "Iron Man"] Reference
Another deficiency was the lack of clear political guidelines for the police. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I cannot but discern and lament a great deficiency, which is common to them all. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1] Reference
But Professor Byard says any test or treatment for the deficiency is a long way off. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
It is, thus, highly unlikely that your deficiency is the result of a vegetarian diet. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Blogger] Reference
The excess is ambition, the deficiency is the lack of it; but here terminology fails us. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy] Reference
Some lenders may call the deficiency a judgment though, which will hurt the score a bit. From Wordnik.com. [Mortgage News Daily - Mortgage And Real Estate News] Reference
Overweight people tend to have zinc deficiency, which is inversely related to the body mass index. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
When you have a vitamin deficiency, that is an opportunity for your body to warn you with easy bruising. From Wordnik.com. [Article Source] Reference
Iron deficiency occurs when the rate of loss or use of iron exceeds its rate of uptake and assimilation. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"If my allowance will not support me here like a gentleman, my father must make up the deficiency, that is all!". From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Lady of Lone] Reference
About 15% of male cancer survivors experience testosterone deficiency, which is a late side effect of radiation therapy. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
T said that in February it had received a so-called statutory notice of deficiency, which is a demand for past-due taxes. From Wordnik.com. [T to Pay Tax for Offshore Enterprise] Reference
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with deficits in trabecular and cortical bone in incident pediatric Crohn’s disease. From Wordnik.com. [Abstracts] Reference
The difference between the amount owed and the winning bid is called the deficiency, and that is your responsibility to pay. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Each year, more than one million dogs suffer from cranial cruciate ligament deficiency, which is comparable to the anterior cruciate. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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