noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dietary
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The consequences of starvation depend on the type of dietary deficiency from which it arises.
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All these are symptoms of a simple dietary deficiency but often are mistaken for normal ageing processes.
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No dietary deficiencies in people who lived on her soup!
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These unnatural cravings, called pica, may indicate a dietary mineral deficiency and are very rare.
immune
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Cryptosporidium is a cause of chronic diarrhoea and a proximal small intestinal mucosal enteropathy in children without immune deficiency .
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Carly suffers from an immune system deficiency which killed her 14-month-old brother Greig four days before she was born.
iron
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In iron deficiency anemia complicated by other disorders which either increase serum iron or decrease the.
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First, her blood showed an iron deficiency , and she showed signs of chronic-fatigue syndrome.
major
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Unfortunately, for bankers assessing country risk, this ratio has two major deficiencies .
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But even these valuable works share one major deficiency .
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In particular, the lack of longitudinal studies of older people in Britain is a major deficiency .
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Taking, firstly, class-based urban and regional sociology on its own terms, social and spatial mobility is a major deficiency .
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In all cases they considered the limitations of online information specific to their own needs to be a major deficiency .
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The major deficiency in the Academy plan is the assumption that science suffers from the end of the Cold War.
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But in fact there are two major and important deficiencies with them.
nutrient
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Plants under stress from drought, disease or nutrient deficiency are the most likely to attract insect pests.
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Physiological problems Finally, a few words about some physiological problems which result from nutrient deficiencies and weather conditions.
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You ought never to see nutrient deficiencies because they are a sign of incorrect feeding.
nutritional
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No evidence of nutritional deficiencies was found.
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Laboratory tests have two primary purposes, one of which is to detect marginal nutritional deficiencies .
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A poor diet, with low nutrient snacks can lead to nutritional deficiencies .
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The syndrome also may be seen in other conditions associated with intestinal malabsorption or nutritional deficiency .
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We are talking of a period and of a class in which nutritional deficiencies were commonplace.
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Physical examination may reveal evidence of certain nutritional deficiencies that will not be detected by dietary or laboratory methods. 2.
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Negative thought energies 3. Nutritional deficiency 4.
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Or is it an illness with nutritional deficiency at its root?
serious
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Our analysis showed serious deficiencies in the case for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm as it currently stands.
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The computer system had serious deficiencies .
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Janet has suffered various forms of ill health throughout most of her life, including asthma and a serious thyroid deficiency .
■ NOUN
anaemia
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Iron deficiency anaemia - how far to investigate?
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Crohn's disease is often associated with iron deficiency anaemia .
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Iron deficiency anaemia is commonly caused by chronic blood loss from the gastrointestinal tract.
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Ten patients had died all unrelated to the iron deficiency anaemia .
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Therefore sigmoidoscopy should be mandatory as part of the investigation of patients with iron deficiency anaemia .
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The need for sigmoidoscopy in patients with obscure iron deficiency anaemia is contentious.
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This survey also allowed us to analyse the usefulness of investigations in iron deficiency anaemia in outpatients.
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The need to investigate the colon in outpatients referred with iron deficiency anaemia has not previously been assessed.
enzyme
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The enzyme deficiency varies from absence of detectable activity to a residual activity of up to 25% or more.
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Neonatal physiologic jaundice due to an enzyme deficiency is hepatic in origin.
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It is quite probable that both IgE and enzyme deficiencies are important in causing the symptoms.
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Take the alpha one antitrypsin enzyme deficiency in the lung.
vitamin
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Assuming the same thing happens in the gut, then a vitamin deficiency might make the yeast convert to the hyphal form.
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Critics say that could lead to vitamin deficiencies or possible long-term effects on health such as increased incidence of cancer.
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I also found that I had a vitamin deficiency , and Anna-Lisa introduced me to vitamin supplements.
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Absorption of vital minerals can be affected with many consequences to both physical and mental health, notably through vitamin deficiency .
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Diet was often suggested as being the problem, possibly a vitamin deficiency being to blame.
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There are some illnesses and drugs that can cause vitamin deficiencies , and your doctor should advise on supplements.
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The existence of vitamin deficiency had been recorded long before vitamins were recognized, and successful treatment had already been introduced.
■ VERB
cause
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They agree that yellowing needles are caused by magnesium deficiency .
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The fading colours and yellowish transparent appearance are clear indications of iron chlorosis caused by deficiencies in iron and trace elements.
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Severe erosive oesophagitis may be a cause of iron deficiency anaemia but hiatus hernia alone seems unlikely to cause iron deficiency anaemia.
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There are some illnesses and drugs that can cause vitamin deficiencies , and your doctor should advise on supplements.
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Second, blocks may be caused by a deficiency of enzyme co-factors - that is, various vitamin or trace element deficiencies.
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Anaemia, caused by iron deficiency , also makes hair sparser.
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These can be very painful at times and also cause photophobia and a deficiency in the vision.
correct
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Oral supplementation with L-carnitine can correct the deficiency .
find
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The next is to find out if the deficiency is a result of gastrointestinal blood loss or malabsorption.
make
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This has now been officially recognised and it is expected that extra student places will be provided to make up the deficiency .
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Studentsmany of them black and Latino-would have had to make up their academic deficiencies in community college or elsewhere.
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How closely do they resemble these notes? Make a list of deficiencies that could be remedied by you.
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This closely followed a Boothferry Health directive to the Club membership to make good certain deficiencies or face closure.
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But what function had the saints in heaven if not to make good the deficiency ?
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The chlorophyll traps make up their electron deficiency by grabbing them from water molecules sited close by.
remedy
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Many provisions of the Sale of Goods Act were designed to remedy such deficiencies in the contract.
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Congress should remedy both of those deficiencies .
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Attempts to remedy the deficiencies in these statistics suffer from a number of problems and difficulties themselves.
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For over a millennium believers have chipped off pieces in a faithful attempt to remedy their deficiencies .
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Are there adequate and appropriate resources to remedy any deficiencies which are exposed?
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The research to be undertaken will attempt to remedy this deficiency .
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Processes were scrutinized to remedy deficiencies internal to physical geography.
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The inevitable reduction in the amount of time likely to be given to singing challenges the Church to remedy this deficiency .
show
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Our analysis showed serious deficiencies in the case for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm as it currently stands.
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First, her blood showed an iron deficiency , and she showed signs of chronic-fatigue syndrome.
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Its statement of affairs showed a £279m deficiency .
suffer
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However, control by killing the mosquito larvae suffers from two main deficiencies .
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The plaintiff was born prematurely and suffered from an oxygen deficiency .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A deficiency of soil nutrients can cause the resulting crop to be disease-ridden and of very poor quality.
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Older women can suffer bone loss caused by estrogen deficiency .
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One of the symptoms of vitamin C deficiency is extreme tiredness.
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Over 40% of rental housing contained structural deficiencies.
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Women suffering from iron deficiency can take supplements in the form of tablets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Arkansas is a poor state, its deficiencies no measure of its virtue.
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Communities focus on capacities; service systems focus on deficiencies.
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The sum of evidence is now too strong to justify further placebo controlled trials in communities with vitamin A deficiency .
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Therefore, magnesium deficiency rarely, if ever, occurs on a dietary basis alone.
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They agree that yellowing needles are caused by magnesium deficiency .
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This deficiency proved fatal when the dollar faced a prolonged confidence crisis in the early 1970s.
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When centralized planning is used as the normal mode of economic control, a number of deficiencies loom into view: 1.