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lack: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" insufficiency: lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
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| deficiency disease |
any disease caused by a lack of an essential nutrient (as a vitamin or mineral)
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In medicine, a shortage of a substance (such as a vitamin or mineral) needed by the body.
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(Also known as a deletion.) A chromosome aberration in which the DNA encoding a portion of two or more genes is missing from the chromosome. Single gene or intragenic deletions are treated as alleles in the Drosophila melanogaster nomenclature.
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Disease resulting from a lack of vitamins or minerals in the diet or a failure to absorb vitamins or minerals from food. [Encarta]
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