(a.) Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality.
(a.) Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of 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.
Scanty
Definition:
(a.) Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.
(a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.
(a.) Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) Treatment was monitored by simple measurements, and it's toxicity proved to be scanty.
(3) The blood lymphocytes were small with scanty cytoplasm, densely condensed nuclear chromatin, and deep clefts originating in sharp angles from the nuclear surface.
(4) At necropsy, a heart with normal dimensions was found with scanty small cicatrices in the myocardium, probably resulting of past myocarditis.
(5) The biopsy findings consisted of eosinophilic individual necrosis of epidermal cells, satellite cell necrosis, basal liquefaction degeneration, and scanty cell infiltration into the dermis.
(6) Tumours harvested after 3 weeks growth in donors, became cystic and had a scanty arterial supply.In both groups there was no portal circulation to the tumours' deposits.It is suggested that prior to intra-arterial treatment of cancer in the liver, the morphology of the tumour should be assessed.
(7) Unfortunately, owing to the scanty description of the work task, the exposure could be analysed only by job title.
(8) The three workers had scanty clinical symptoms; however, their chest x-ray films revealed disseminated nodulations throughout both pulmonary fields.
(9) Control kidneys harboured scanty interstitial T lymphocytes.
(10) However, B cells (B-1), NK cells (Leu-7 and Leu-11), complement proteins and receptor (C4 and C3d receptor), and neutrophils (chloroacetate esterase) were scanty or absent in these foci.
(11) They possess numerous mitochondria with lamellar and tubular cristae, abundant smooth endoplasmic reticulum, lipofuscin bodies and scanty lipid.
(12) The results support the hypotheses implicit in the scanty literature available that the frequency and effects of torture in women differ from those found in men.
(13) Although articles on studies of organized home care programs are numerous, reports of long-term effectiveness of these programs are scanty.
(14) The biopsy specimens in the remaining 254 cases continued scanty detectable IgA (discontinuous pattern) or none.
(15) Data on colonic intraluminal pressures are scanty, but those that exist seem to indicate that the addition of bran to the diet results in a decrease in overall colonic pressures.
(16) A syndrome of scanty, fine, curled hair, thin dysplastic nails, taurodontic molars, hypoplastic-hypomature enamel, dysplasia of dentin, and hypohidrosis segregating as an autosomal dominant trait is described in a Japanese family.
(17) These were supplemented by interactions with medical personnel, as well as a review of the scanty literature (geriatrics is not a recognized medical specialty in the Soviet Union).
(18) The discrepancy between the relatively scanty amount of statistically reliable data on the one hand and the complexity of the manifestation of death by hanging on the other hand proved to be the main problem.
(19) The white pulp was scanty of lymphocytes and decreased in a unit area but it was increased in the whole spleen.
(20) Fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies of a thyroid nodule in a patient with longstanding histiocytosis X produced a scanty amount of colloid, a moderately dense mixed inflammatory infiltrate and numerous small papillary fragments lined by cuboidal-to-columnar cells.