insufficiency (redirected from hepatic insufficiency)

in·suf·fi·cien·cy  (ns-fshn-s)

n. pl. in·suf·fi·cien·cies

1. The quality or state of being insufficient, especially:

a. Moral or mental incompetence.

b. Inadequate supply: an insufficiency of funds.

c. Inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally: cardiac insufficiency.

2. A failing; an inadequacy: pointed out the insufficiencies in my report.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	insufficiency - a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents" inadequacy failing, weakness - a flaw or weak point; "he was quick to point out his wife's failings"
	2.	insufficiency - (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally inability, unfitness - lacking the power to perform pathology - the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases cardiac insufficiency, coronary insufficiency - inadequate blood flow to the heart muscles; can cause angina pectoris
	3.	insufficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" inadequacy, deficiency amount - the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion; "an adequate amount of food for four people" exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness, poorness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot deficit, shortage, shortfall - the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit" scarceness, scarcity - a small and inadequate amount slenderness - the quality of being slight or inadequate; "he knew the slenderness of my wallet"; "the slenderness of the chances that anything would be done"; "the slenderness of the evidence" adequacy, sufficiency - the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"