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insufficiency
(redirected from placental insufficiency)

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insufficiency noun absence, dearth, deficiency, deficit, depletion, emptiness, exhaustion, exiguity, falling short, fewness, inadequacy, incompetence, incompleteness, inopia, lack, need, not enough, paucity, scantiness, scantness, scarcity, short fall, short measure, short supply, shortage, shortcoming, sparseness, stint, too few, want
Associated concepts: insufficiency of evidence, insufficiency of law to support a verdict
See also: abortion, dearth, defect, deficiency, deficit, delinquency, demand, detriment, disability, disadvantage, disqualification, failure, fault, handicap, immateriality, impotence, inability, incompetence, indigence, inefficacy, market, need, paucity, privation

INSUFFICIENCY. What is not competent; not enough.



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Recording the medical cause of death as placental insufficiency, Cardiff and Vale coroner Mary Hassell told Emma: 'During this inquest, those around you have described you as caring, a mother bird, somebody who looks after everybody and who they can turn to for advice.
Vascular thrombosis or pregnancy morbidity, including recurrent early losses, late loss, or premature births due to severe pre-eclampsia or severe placental insufficiency 3.
However, age is a factor in certain foetal abnormalities, and you have a risk of diabetes and placental insufficiency, so you may be screened for these more frequently to be on the safe side.
 
 
 
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