It simply wouldn't do to look or feel deficient in these most basic characteristics.
Maintaining that promise depends in part on potash, the only fertiliser in which China is seriously deficient.
"The effects of being iron deficient not only cause anemia, but may also cause" long-term, irreversible effects on children's cognitive and behavioral development.
Each historical epoch is a world in itself, closed off and certain of its principles, until the dialectic movement of historical life creates a new, equally limited and deficient form.
They can be charge deficient or charge excessive.
It makes more sense to me to study dietary supplements or vitamins in populations who are deficient.
Researchers and experts have found that a significant portion of peopleliving in colder, darker climates are severely deficient in vitamin D.
A mentally deficient person is one who is weak-minded.
The main results were as follows: soil applications of mn fertilizer significantly improved mn nutrition of wheat, oat, rape and chickpea in mn - deficient soil.
One of the outstanding characteristics of the red Army's operations, which follows from the fact that the enemy is powerful while the Red Army is deficient in technical equipment, is the absence of fixed battle lines.
Half of those over 75 in hospital are reckoned to be nutrient-deficient, as are many obese people.
Manure supplies what is deficient in the soil.
As India's energy resources are spread unevenly across the country, the efficient transmission of power from surplus to deficient regions is critical.
Many women who cut animal foods from their diet end up tired, hungry and deficient in things like protein and iron, Dr. Willett cautions.
類似地，abundant數是其所有因子的和大於該數，而deficient數是其因子的和小於該數。
"I hope, Marianne," continued Elinor, "you do not consider him as deficient in general taste."
Not everyone has a good diet so some of those nutrients might be deficient.
