insufficiency
Noun
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same as: inadequacy
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referred to in: pathology - the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseasessubtypes: cardiac insufficiency, coronary insufficiency - inadequate blood flow to the heart muscles; can cause angina pectoris
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is a type of: amount - the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterionsubtypes:
- exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness - the quality of being meager
- deficit, shortage, shortfall - the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
- scarceness, scarcity - a small and inadequate amount
- slenderness - the quality of being slight or inadequate
same as: deficiency, inadequacy
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