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DEFICIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
Example:
new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("deficit" is a kind of...):
deficiency; inadequacy; insufficiency (lack of an adequate quantity or number)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deficit"):
oxygen deficit (temporary oxygen shortage in cells resulting from strenuous exercise)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)
Example:
last year there was a serious budgetary deficit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("deficit" is a kind of...):
liabilities (anything that is owed to someone else)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deficit"):
budget deficit (an excess of expenditures over revenues)
trade deficit (an excess of imports over exports)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("deficit" is a kind of...):
score (a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest)
Domain category:
athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)
Antonym:
lead ((sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning
Example:
they have serious linguistic deficits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("deficit" is a kind of...):
deficiency; lack; want (the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable)
Context examples:
The examination of the cognitive capacities or deficits of an individual through the application of tests that probe that individual's ability to perform various mental activities such as perception, learning, and reasoning.
(Cognitive Assessment, NCI Thesaurus)
In medicine, a family of drugs used to treat depression, attention-deficit disorder (a common disorder in which children are inattentive, impulsive, and/or over-active), and narcolepsy (a sleep disorder that causes uncontrollable sleepiness).
(CNS stimulant, NCI Dictionary)
Clinical presentation is often delayed until the fourth or fifth decade when affected individuals may develop headaches, seizures, and focal neurologic deficits.
(Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Cognitive flexibility is a major deficit in patients with OCD and is related to the the lateral prefrontal cortex.
(Deep brain stimulation may significantly improve OCD symptoms, University of Cambridge)
The rats showed memory deficits that were largely associated with the more frequently occurring IEDs rather than with the rare seizures.
(Seizures disrupt memory network, NIH)
Being able to predict deficits long before they appear could open up new opportunities to design and test interventions that prevent Alzheimer's in people, said Yadong Huang, senior author of the study.
(Predicting Alzheimer's-like memory loss before it strikes, National Science Foundation)
The evidence from MRI scans suggests that such Neanderthal-derived genetic variation may affect the way our brains work today – and may hold clues to understanding deficits seen in schizophrenia and autism-related disorders.
(“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders, National Institutes of Health)
Restoring the gene’s function corrected the working memory deficit.
(Schizophrenia risk gene linked to cognitive deficits in mice, National Institutes of Health)
The spectrum of illnesses associated with exposure to endocrine disruptors is far-reaching, ranging from attention deficits and hyperactivity, to genitourinary disorders, premature secondary sexual development, and obesity in children.
(Nine out of ten pairs of baby socks on the market contain traces of bisphenol A and parabens, University of Granada)
A category of psychiatric disorders which are characterized by a deficit in cognition or memory.
(Cognitive Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
