(n.) Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of the dearth of epidemiological clues as to causation, studies with experimental animal models assume greater importance.
(2) There are no specific legislative provisions regulating sterilisation in any State or Territory in Australia and there is a dearth of general case law on the subject.
(3) Fisher, who cannot afford to live in town, said the dearth of available land made it hard for developers to find plots where they could achieve the 20% margins they generally wanted, which meant community, non-profit alternatives needed to be considered.
(4) Devolution in our over-centralised state is to be welcomed, but that it is being talked up as the platform for Labour renewal is surely a symptom of a dearth of ideas.
(5) We are reporting this case with review of literature, as there is dearth of published literature on this association of Leprosy and Tetanus.
(6) An Oxford Business School's Centre for Business Taxation survey highlighted concerns about "a particular dearth of people who have the technical expertise to deal with the challenges presented by large business".
(7) Finally, the literature revealed a dearth of controlled studies of psychosocial treatment for well defined subgroups of neurotic depression.
(8) Cost-effectiveness analysis is an economic methodology widely used to inform such decisions, yet there is a dearth of information available on the economic consequences of mass breast cancer screening.
(9) Similar data are already available from North America and surveys have been done in Scotland but there is a dearth of information from England and Wales.
(10) That October, citing the dearth of providers in west Texas, an appeals court gave the clinic permission to operate once again.
(11) Some relatives of people killed by police said they had been unaware of the dearth of publicly available information on police-involved fatalities until their family became affected.
(12) He argued that allowing the sector to be dominated by a handful of players would lead to "excess profits, poor customer service and a dearth of innovation, none of which are likely to create a stable system".
(13) But, having last year decried the dearth of Scottish comedy on the fringe , I’d better give this year’s pre-Edinburgh sketch laurels to Burnistoun (Robert Florence and Iain Connell), the well-loved BBC Scotland sketch show now following up a sell-out Glasgow run with a first appearance at the fringe.
(14) Although olfactory complaints prompt an estimated 200,000 people each year to seek medical consultation in the U.S., there is a dearth of information available in the nursing literature.
(15) News media reports and unclassified government documents showed North Korea imported large amounts of centrifuge parts in the early 2000s, Pollack said, but an apparent dearth of observed imports since then suggests that Pyongyang is making the necessary components at home.
(16) Concerns over quality have also held back growth and a dearth of commercial digital-only stations has also been a factor.
(17) Remarkable, perhaps, that the Greens are doing quite so well given the relative dearth of airtime.
(18) This dearth is especially evident among cases citing injury to the genitourinary system.
(19) Bye then went on to argue that given “the absolute dearth of information Missouri has disclosed to this court, the ‘pharmacy’ on which Missouri relies could be nothing more than a high school chemistry class.” He added: “I once again fear Missouri elevates the ends over the means in its rush to execute Taylor.” Bye’s dissent was backed by two other judges on the appeals court.
(20) California accounted for 136,826, almost a quarter of the total, reflecting high cost of living, a dearth of affordable housing and cuts in state services.
Plethora
Definition:
(n.) Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; -- opposed to anaemia.
(n.) State of being overfull; excess; superabundance.
Example Sentences:
(1) By univariate analysis, each echocardiographic sign was associated with both cardiac tamponade and the combined end point (p less than or equal to 0.01 for comparisons with size and right-sided chamber collapse; p less than or equal to 0.07 for comparisons with IVC plethora).
(2) Brown will argue that the digital revolution will be especially vital in job centres, schools, hospital records and ensuring that, when people move home, they need only inform one website rather than a plethora of government agencies.
(3) Histopathological rearrangement in the small intestine wall is demonstrated as edema of the mucous membrane, as plethora of the vessels, as lymphoid infiltration and as changes of the villi forms.
(4) The work analyzes macroscopical (weight, volume, specific gravity) and microscopical (qualitative -- plethora, content of lipids, foci of cytolysis, mosaity etc.
(5) Peptic ulcer is a common and chronic problem with a plethora of drug treatments available that accelerate healing in the short term.
(6) The widespread usage of ventriculoperitoneal shunts has been followed by a plethora of complications.
(7) Childs also oversaw the launch of a plethora of new BBC Worldwide channels in 2006, such as BBC Entertainment, BBC Lifestyle and BBC Knowledge, which are now available on several continents, including Asia, Europe and South America.
(8) Vascular changes were expressed as congestive plethora, perivascular edema and microfocal hemorrhages.
(9) There is a plethora of receptions at conference and Corbyn is expected to drop in on most of them.
(10) Despite the plethora of models and strategies for addressing issues that surround the chronically mentally ill, there remains a paucity of literature that addresses the specific implications of deinstitutionalization on racial minorities.
(11) "The plethora of indigenous highly pathogenic and virulent agents naturally occurring in India and the large Indian industrial base – combined with weak controls – also make India as much a source of bioterrorism material as a target," diplomats warned.
(12) The plethora of beta blockers that subsequently became available for study led to considerable improvement in both the design and implementation of large clinical trials.
(13) In the control, after ischemia (without radiation) in 45 days venous plethora of the vessels in the intermuscular plexus of the intestinal wall is kept.
(14) More recently, physiological findings have directed investigation toward a plethora of humoral substances and their possible role in disturbances of the secretory processes in CF.
(15) Despite the plethora of information provided by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging that allows differentiation of some substances that are indistinguishable at computed tomography (CT), there are diagnostic problems.
(16) Since 2001, when the Bush administration bluntly told Islamabad it must take sides, be either "for us or agin us" in the newly declared "war on terror", Pakistan has struggled under a plethora of imperious American demands, démarches and impositions that are at once politically indefensible and contrary to the perceived national interest.
(17) I would suggest that we must be innovative in dealing with the plethora of health legislation.
(18) Brown argued that the digital revolution will be especially vital in jobcentres, schools, hospital records and to ensure that when people move home they need only inform one website rather than a plethora of government agencies.
(19) Its target is not just celebrity intrusion but bias, unfairness and gossip in the style of Private Eye and the "off Fleet Street" plethora of news-and-comment websites.
(20) Obama will unveil a plethora of new legislative proposals, together with 19 executive actions that he can introduce without congressional approval, at a White House event on Wednesday morning.