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insufficiency
(redirected from valvular 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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It develops in the myocardium or the endocardium and accounts for about one out of every five tumors that originate in the heart causing obstruction of blood flow, valvular insufficiency, and cardiac arrhythmias.
Types of Heart Diseases and Their Symptoms by John Adison / Health, general community
4) These lethal forms of heart disease include cardiomyopathy, valvular insufficiency, congestive heart failure, arrhythmia, coronary thrombosis (blood clot in coronary artery), and coronary atherosclerosis (narrowing or blockage of coronary arteries).
Millions of needless deaths by Faloon, William / Life Extension
The other limitations of this study are that the patients have wide age range and the duration of valvular insufficiency was not taken into consideration in this study, because duration of valvular insufficiency affects both echocardiographic and radiological cardiac dimensions.
Predictive value of cardiothoracic ratio as a marker of severity of ... by Oztunc, Funda; Babaoglu, Kadir; Yilmaz, Elif; Demir, Tevfik; Ahunbay, Gulay / The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology (Anadolu Kardiyoloji Dergisi)
 
 
 
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