(n.) The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc.
(n.) Want of power or skill; inability; incapacity; incompetency; as, the insufficiency of a man for an office.
Example Sentences:
(1) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(2) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(3) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(4) The diagnosis of variant- or Prizmetal-angina is difficult because if insufficient specificity of the tests.
(5) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
(6) The observed pulmonary hypertension is probably the result of the left heart insufficiency and is being discussed with regard of the histopathological alterations in the heart muscle and the pulmonary vessels.
(7) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
(8) Symptoms of gonadal insufficiency, in the presence of high serum levels of gonadotropins, generally indicate primary gonadal failure.
(9) The first one is a region with iodine insufficiency; the second one is a region where the people use table salt in excess.
(10) Medium molecules have been detected by two methods, gel filtration and screening technique, in patients with diffuse purulent peritonitis and with chronic renal insufficiency.
(11) Furthermore, it is insufficient to fully account for the transmembrane chemical shift differences observed for dimethyl methylphosphonate and hypophosphite.
(12) Even though the administration of demethylchlortetracycline did not produce significant decreases in the glomerular filtration rate or renal blood flow in our patient, it is advisable to control the renal function in individuals treated with this drug since it may on occasion determine renal insufficiency.
(13) The magnitude of erythropoietin-induced [Cai] increase, however, was insufficient to open Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels.
(14) The development of renal insufficiency during enalapril therapy may be exacerbated by concomitant diuretic therapy and should raise the suspicion of underlying transplant renal-artery stenosis.
(15) We describe a patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who developed hypersensitivity after 3 weeks of therapy with azathioprine with fever, jaundice and renal insufficiency.
(16) The authors have carried out an experimental study of an insufficiently explored problem of the diffusion capacity of the ethers of cholesterol through the skin and the possibility of their intra-articular transport with cholesterol ether of the oleic acid marked 1,2(3)H taken as an example.
(17) Due to placental insufficiency a cesarean section had to be performed in the 31st week of gestation.
(18) The observation that additional signals are required to support T4 cell proliferation when the density of immobilized anti-CD3 is diminished suggests that these are necessary only when insufficient interactions with the CD3 molecule have occurred to transmit a maximal activation signal to the cell.
(19) These observations suggest that the degree of sodium depletion plays an important role in the tendency for angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors to induce renal failure in patients with congestive heart failure and moderate renal insufficiency.
(20) A 73-year-old woman who presented with primary adrenal insufficiency and enlarged adrenal glands on computed tomographic scanning was ultimately found to have a large-cell lymphoma that had initially involved the adrenals and the stomach.
Null
Definition:
(a.) Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
(n.) Something that has no force or meaning.
(n.) That which has no value; a cipher; zero.
(v. t.) To annul.
(n.) One of the beads in nulled work.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
(2) DR(+) cells, however, showed no change in percentage and a lesser drop in absolute numbers, suggesting an increase with advancing disease of DR(+), Ig(-) null cells, which may represent immature B cell precursors.
(3) In this report we describe an improvement upon the design by Stanton and Lightfoot for a simple photographic null method to determine the kVp of a diagnostic region x-ray source.
(4) At least two (Rh null and the McLeod type) are responsible for congenital hemolytic disorders.
(5) (2) Sequences of brightness steps of like polarity (either increments or decrements) elicit positive and negative motion-dependent response components when mimicking motion in the cell's preferred and null direction, respectively.
(6) The analysis also involved statistical tests of a modified null hypothesis, the generation of confidence intervals (CIs) and a meta-analysis.
(7) The null potential of both responses became more and less negative with a decrease and an increase, respectively, in the extracellular potassium concentration.
(8) The null mutation of algR was generated in a mucoid derivative of the standard genetic strain PAO responsive to different environmental factors.
(9) Endoneurial fluid pressure (EFP) was recorded by an active, servo-null pressure system after a glass micropipette was inserted into rat sciatic nerve undergoing wallerian degeneration.
(10) In thymo-deprived mice (nude mice and B mice) the percentage of null cells increases during the stage of regeneration, and B mice develop a large number of Ig +-bearing cells.
(11) Alkaline phosphatase activity was elevated in the lymphocytes from T-CLL, cord blood and tonsils and the blast cells from Null-ALL.
(12) Analysis of ldlA cells has identified three classes of mutant alleles at the ldlA locus: null alleles, alleles that code for normally processed receptors that cannot bind LDL, and alleles that code for abnormally processed receptors.
(13) Putative null sup-38 mutations cause maternal-effect lethality which is rescued by a wild-type copy of the locus in the zygote.
(14) Null cells of patients with hypoplastic anemia did not produce erythroid colonies under any culture conditions.
(15) Comparison of simulated versus actual inheritance data demonstrates that the so-called null structural alleles actually produce functional globins.--The genetic controls in Peromyscus may be analogous to those in primates.
(16) A null zone and associated sudden phase-reversal of RSA were observed in stratum lucidum of CA3.
(17) When the stimulus is placed at a position approximately 80 degrees dorsal to the eye axis, there is no response; this area is called the null region.
(18) Northern blot analysis showed that Adh-1 mRNA was synthesized at wild-type levels in immature seeds of the null mutant, but dropped to 25% in mature seeds.
(19) Two tumours were null cell adenomas with PIs less than 0.1 and 0.2%.
(20) Thus this methodology offers the potential to study naturally occurring ADH electromorphs and null alleles independent of enzymatic activity assays.