deficiency
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
deficiency/dɪˈfɪʃnsi/
▶noun (pl. deficiencies) a lack or shortage.
■ a failing or shortcoming.
'deficiency' also found in these Oxford entries:
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- agammaglobulinaemia
- agranulocytosis
- Aids
- anaemia
- anoxia
- aplastic anaemia
- ascorbic acid
- avitaminosis
- beriberi
- bush sickness
- chlorosis
- Christmas disease
- cobalamin
- cretin
- cyanocobalamin
- deficiency disease
- deficit
- diabetes insipidus
- diabetes mellitus
- dysphasia
- factor VIII
- folic acid
- hypocalcaemia
- hypoglycaemia
- hypokalaemia
- hypomagnesaemia
- hypoxaemia
- hypoxia
- kwashiorkor
- lack
- learning difficulties
- mental deficiency
- milk fever
- nyctalopia
- oligospermia
- osteomalacia
- osteoporosis
- pancytopenia
- pellagra
- pernicious anaemia
- rickets
- SCID
- scurvy
- tare
- tetany
- thiamine
- thrombocytopenia
- thyroid
