| NOUN1 | insufficiency | insufficiencies |
| NOUN2 | insufficiency | - |
| SYNO | deficiency | inadequacy | insufficiency |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- Other causes of edema that can promote a volume-overloaded state and predispose individuals to TACO include: heart failure, renal insufficiency, nephrotic syndrome, cirrhosis, and chronic venous insufficiency.
- Slowly worsening aortic insufficiency results in a chronic insufficiency which permits the heart to compensate (unlike acute insufficiency).
- According to Widmer Classification for assessment of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI), diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency is clearly differentiated from varicose veins.
- Placental insufficiency can affect the fetus, causing fetal distress.
- Accommodative insufficiency is the condition where amplitude of accommodation of a person is lesser compared to physiological limits for their age.
- Accommodative excess may occur secondary to convergence insufficiency also.
- "GT198" germline deletion and mutation have been linked to primary ovarian insufficiency, when female members were affected in families with XX-female gonadal dysgenesis.
- Adrenoleukodystrophy, and the milder form, adrenomyeloneuropathy, cause adrenal insufficiency combined with neurological symptoms.
- Adrenal insufficiency (the deficiency of glucocorticoids) occurs in about 5 in 10,000 in the general population.
- Aggressiveness of therapy depends on the clinical status of the patient and the nature of the insufficiency (glucocorticoid, mineralocorticoid, or both).
- Regurgitation in or near the heart is often caused by valvular insufficiency (insufficient function, with incomplete closure, of the heart valves); for example, aortic valve insufficiency causes regurgitation through that valve, called aortic regurgitation, and the terms "aortic insufficiency" and "aortic regurgitation" are so closely linked as usually to be treated as metonymically interchangeable.
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