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deficiency
1. n. Inadequacy or incompleteness.
2. n. An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
3. n. (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
4. n. (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.

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Body temperature rising, pulse rising ... he's in a state of oxygen deficiency.

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