(n.) Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their speech patterns, specifically pronoun use, were analyzed and support the postulate that a high frequency of self-references indicates memory loss and paucity of present experience.
(2) While the number of women with early stage breast cancer choosing the latter treatment continues to increase, there is a paucity of information in the nursing literature assessing the informational and psychosocial needs of this group.
(3) There is a paucity of informative data on the potentially important role of specific sites of chromosomal instability in oncogenic processes.
(4) The paucity of intermediate sequences indicated that strong selection pressure was exerted on this part of the envelope.
(5) Apart from the absence or paucity of endometrial glands, the clinical and pathological features of the lesions were similar to those of previously described cases of superficial endometriosis of the cervix.
(6) in the US the last ten years have witnessed an alarming recrudescence involving vast strata of the population and especially children, although this is masked by the paucity of reports, as is the case also in Italy.
(7) Alagille syndrome is characterized by the association of chronic cholestasis with a paucity of interlobular bile ducts and a distinctive facies together with cardiovascular, skeletal and eye abnormalities.
(8) The alveolar macrophages were increased in number and size but marked cytoplasmic vacuolation and a paucity of lysosomes are consistent with our previous suggestion that the phagocytic and migratory properties of these cells are weakened or inhibited.
(9) A variety of sources can account for marine pollution by genotoxic, carcinogenic, and teratogenic compounds, but there is a relative paucity of analytical data concerning the Mediterranean.
(10) In MND subjects, neurons in Onuf's nucleus at S2 were preserved despite a paucity of neurons in medial and lateral motor nuclei and were of similar size range to those in control subjects.
(11) The difficulties encountered in good experimental design in this formidable area, which may account for the paucity of work, are discussed.
(12) Vitamin D deficiency was characterized by an increase in proliferating cells, with a relative paucity of hypertrophic cells; EHDP treatment was characterized by an increase in hypertrophic cells.
(13) This paucity of abnormal features of gross development is consistent with findings in 3 previously reported patients with ring 17 chromosomes.
(14) Our observations demonstrate paucity of cell-mediated immune response in stromal keratitis.
(15) Seizures were rare and there was a paucity of localizing neurological signs.
(16) Understanding the mechanisms by which these oncogenes affect various cell types has been hampered by a paucity of experimental systems that reproduce the range of biological effects associated with them.
(17) Analysis based on the assumptions that solution dimensions are preserved, adsorption is random, and surface rearrangement is negligible indicates a paucity of surface sites.
(18) The discrepancy between the size of the tumour and the paucity of physical findings, the value of a multiple test auditory screening strategy, and the surgical approach in this case are discussed.
(19) The relatively infrequent use of CT in evaluating the adnexa has resulted in a paucity of literature regarding the CT characteristics of benign ovarian masses.
(20) The paucity of metholologic explorations is further aggravated by the constraints on communications regarding methodology.
Poverty
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
(n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(2) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(3) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(4) That's why the Trussell Trust has been calling for an in depth inquiry into the causes of food poverty.
(5) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(6) Years of education completed and poverty status did not significantly affect folate concentrations; however, the prevalence of low folate concentrations among users of vitamin or mineral supplements was significantly lower than it was among nonusers in selected subgroups.
(7) "Due to much higher housing costs, one in seven of London's employees receives wages which are below the poverty threshold," says Mr Livingstone.
(8) After adjusting for health status, persons below poverty were shown to have significantly fewer physician contacts than persons above poverty.
(9) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
(10) World leaders must reach a historic agreement to fight climate change and poverty at coming talks in Paris, facing the stark choice to either “improve or destroy the environment”, Pope Francis said in Africa on Thursday.
(11) Mother's oligophrenia, poverty, and familial unbalance were underlying causes.
(12) The potential benefits [of AI research] are huge, since everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools AI may provide, but the eradication of disease and poverty are not unfathomable,” the letter reads.
(13) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
(14) The report was published on the same day that the charity Christians Against Poverty said it expects its free debt counselling service to experience its busiest day on record.
(15) He railed against the left’s lack of interest in tackling entrenched poverty.
(16) Families fear that after April’s disaster the cycle of poverty in the region will be intensified.
(17) In Britain you have all the things we have here – gangs, poverty, racism.
(18) Yet … real incomes did not rise and absolute poverty was unchanged."
(19) This is supposed to happen without pushing up energy bills excessively or extending fuel poverty.
(20) The cycle of events which leads to an impairment of the immune response in the malnourished child includes poverty, food deprivation and frequent infections.