What's the difference between insufficiency and unsufficiency?

Insufficiency


Definition:

  • (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.

Unsufficiency


Definition:

  • (n.) Insufficiency.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cause is considered being an unsufficient antibiotical treatment of maxillary sinusitis.
  • (2) In the sub-maxillary glands, cold exposure reduced the noradrenaline (NA) synthesis by 40% at times 24 and 48 h. In the spleen, NA synthesis was multiplied by a factor 1.6 at times 2.5 and 24 h and 2.8 at time 48 h. In the heart, it was increased by a factor 1.3 after 2.5 h, 2.8 after 24 h and 5.5 after 48 h: an important fall in cardiac NA level was observed during the first 24 h of cold exposure indicating that the synthesis capability was unsufficient to compensate the cold-induced NA release.
  • (3) Therefore 9 patients have to be excluded from the trial (5 unsufficient effects, 4 unreasonable side effects).
  • (4) The unsufficient treatment by X-ray seems to be a conditioning factor by injuring the surrounding stroma.
  • (5) As a result it could be shown, that the adolescents were very unsufficiently described, that they were treated without success in other institutions before, and that they grew up under bad conditions.
  • (6) As against the bourgeois nature healing movement, the Association searched for the reasons of the absolutely unsufficient protection of health of the working class in the capitalist society.
  • (7) The distribution of I. persulcatus and H. concinna further to the north is limited by an unsufficient heat for the development of eggs while for D. silvarum heat is not enough to complete its life cycle within a year.
  • (8) The results showed that either number of epithelial cells or degree of their specialization were unsufficient for Peyer's patch formation.
  • (9) It appears that the doses which have been used are unsufficient to use this medecine as a "monotherapy".
  • (10) The in vitro investigations revealed that under oral conditions the longterm durability of the bond strength is still unsufficient, unless care is taken that the debris layer which is caused by mechanical treatment has been removed.
  • (11) Small amounts of inactivates virus, which was unsufficient to evoke a primary response, could elicit a strong secondary response.
  • (12) The study detected some quantificational differences in morbid psychic anesthesia according to its volume (local, diffuse-partial and total), its actiality (unsufficiently actual, actual and acutely actual), structure (thymical, "reasoning", delusionlike), related to the depressive affect (parallelism with affect, relative parallelism, an absence of parallelism).
  • (13) Under certain, however unsufficiently understood, conditions CSF ex vacuo may develop expansive tendencies, most obvious in growing fracture of the skull vault or base.
  • (14) The later questioning of all patients showed only 4 patients (with unsufficient preoperative sedation) who could remember part of the terminal phase of the operation.
  • (15) The failure of post-schooling for alcohol conspicuous motorists as well as the unsufficient effectiveness of the whole relevant measure practice should be a reason for a new valuation and new orientation of all of the measures in the area of "alcohol in road traffic".
  • (16) It has been established that unlimited feeding of young rats with mother's milk has a positive influence in the early postnatal period on the general development, on the rate of twofold learning and the level of retention of a conditioned reflex, while unsufficient feeding has a negative influence on these characteristics.
  • (17) Increased levels of urine 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid was specific for CS but unsufficiently sensitive to detect all cases.
  • (18) Both groups are extremely unsufficiently provided with prosthesis.
  • (19) They probably identified the taste as salty owing to the lack of proper terms, and unsufficient experience with tasting monosodium glutamate and sodium hydrogen carbonate as substances possessing defined tastes different from the salty taste.
  • (20) This process can be regarded as an adaptation of cancer cells to a situation of unsufficient supply.

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