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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| It has been implicated in such postoperative complications as velopharyngeal insufficiency and nasopharyngeal stenosis. These defects usually result in velopharyngeal insufficiency and an alteration in speech and deglutition. [6,10] In this paper, we retrospectively report the outcomes of 22 children with a high risk of velopharyngeal insufficiency who underwent surgery with a modification of the technique described by Birrell. |
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