English example sentences with "deficiency"

Body temperature rising, pulse rising ... he's in a state of oxygen deficiency.
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AIDS means "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome".
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Scurvy, a disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C, long ago plagued sailors who ate no citrus fruits.
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The central nervous system, which includes the brain and the eyes, is particularly sensitive to oxygen deficiency.
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This website is not accessible to people with red-green color vision deficiency.
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The study found evidence that iron deficiency can lower intelligence test scores by five to seven points, and a lack of iodine in pregnancy causes as many as 20 million babies a year to be born with mental retardation.
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Special new breeds of a drought-hardy grain may help reduce iron deficiency among the world’s poor, according to two new studies.
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Iodine deficiency can cause thyroid deficiency.
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School found that having a vitamin A deficiency, common among some 30 percent of the world’s population in mostly developing nations, was a potent predictor of TB disease risk.
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The human body creates vitamin D through exposure to sunlight, and yet some of the sunniest parts of the world have the highest rates of vitamin D deficiency.
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In a study of more than 300,000 U.S. adults aged 21 to 90, researchers at Pennsylvania State University's College of Medicine found the prevalence of hearing loss among participants overall was 1.6 percent, compared with 3.4 percent among those with iron-deficiency anemia.
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