DEFICIENCY

Deficiency

In medicine, a deficiency is a lack or shortage of a functional entity, by less than normal or necessary supply or function.

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deficiency

Noun

  1. Inadequacy or incompleteness.
  2. An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
  3. The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.


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