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Definition of Insufficiency
1. Noun. A lack of competence. "Juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents"
2. Noun. (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally.
Category relationships: Pathology
Specialized synonyms: Cardiac Insufficiency, Coronary Insufficiency
3. Noun. Lack of an adequate quantity or number. "The inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
Generic synonyms: Amount
Specialized synonyms: Exiguity, Leanness, Meagerness, Meagreness, Poorness, Scantiness, Scantness, Deficit, Shortage, Shortfall, Scarceness, Scarcity, Slenderness
Derivative terms: Deficient, Deficient, Insufficient
Antonyms: Adequacy, Sufficiency
Definition of Insufficiency
1. n. The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc.
Definition of Insufficiency
1. Noun. The lack of sufficiency; the shortage or inadequacy of. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insufficiency
1. [n INSUFFICIENCIES]
Medical Definition of Insufficiency
1. The condition of being insufficient or inadequate to the performance of the allotted duty. Origin: L. Insufficientia, from sufficiens = sufficient This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insufficiency
Literary usage of Insufficiency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"The question arises if the diagnosis of pure aortic insufficiency would be ...
When such conditions occur in aortic insufficiency, the pulse becomes ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1916)
"Insufficiency of the external secretion is indicated by: Changes in the Character of
... id per cent, of the dried weight suggests pancreatic insufficiency. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Francis Vesey (1827)
"Under the reference for insufficiency a report was obtained; ... The subsequent
order of reference for insufficiency was a waiver of the former order. ..."
4. Diseases of the Eye: Handbook of Ophthalmic Practice for Students and by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1903)
"33.—Tests for insufficiency of oblique muscles: 1. Insufficiency of left superior
oblique; 2, insufficiency of left inferior ..."
5. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1918)
"majority of cases occurs in the presence of an associated mitral insufficiency
and stenosis, it happens that the picture of aortic insufficiency departs ..."
6. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1885)
"Retardation of the Pulse in Mitral Insufficiency. ... It is present in all cases
of pure organic mitral insufficiency, and is absent only in insignificant ..."
7. A Manual of the Practice of Medicine: Prepared Especially for Students by Arthur Albert Stevens (1892)
"Mitral insufficiency is the most common of the valvular defects. ... With weakening
of the right ventricle relative tricuspid insufficiency is likely to ..."
8. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1887)
"Insufficiency of the Tricuspid Valve. Insufficiency of the tricuspid valve is
extremely rare as an independent disease of the heart, but a secondary ..."
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