insufficiency
deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
an instance of this.
inability of an organ or other part of the body to function normally: cardiac insufficiency.
Origin of insufficiency
1- Also in·suf·fi·cience .
Other words from insufficiency
- self-in·suf·fi·cien·cy, noun, plural self·-in·suf·fi·cien·cies.
Words Nearby insufficiency
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How to use insufficiency in a sentence
An increase is also noted in the uric-acid diathesis and in diseases accompanied by respiratory insufficiency.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThe poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThey too hastily confessed the insufficiency of arms and fortifications.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward GibbonI believe that a few of the prisoners succumbed to disease and died because they had an insufficiency of nourishing food.
Reminiscences of a Rebel | Wayland Fuller DunawayIt was this insufficiency of rations which wrought the fatal dnouement of the glorious enterprise of Burke and Wills.
The Desert World | Arthur Mangin
British Dictionary definitions for insufficiency
/ (ˌɪnsəˈfɪʃənsɪ) /
Also called: insufficience the state of being insufficient
pathol failure in the functioning of an organ, tissue, etc: cardiac insufficiency
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