Sentences with deficiency
de·fi·cien·cy
D d - They did blood tests on him for signs of vitamin deficiency.
- ...a serious deficiency in our air defence.
- The disease may be caused by nutritional deficiencies.
- There are several deficiencies in his plan.
- The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
- One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not. Often, this is seen as a phenomenon specific to the sciences. … In fact, the disparity applies to the whole grove. Another report from 2006, by the American Association of University Professors, found the same ratio in the faculties of arts, humanities and social science, too.
- The accident was caused by deficiencies in the engine.
- The book's major deficiency is its poor plot.
- His reduced appetite and loss of hair and weight may be associated with iron deficiency anaemia.
- The Andropause Society insists that testosterone deficiency is a different condition from a mid-life crisis.