The phrase "a insufficiency" is not correct in written English.
The correct form is "an insufficiency" because "insufficiency" begins with a vowel sound.
Example: "The report highlighted an insufficiency in the current safety protocols."
Alternatives: "a deficiency" or "a shortfall."
Absence of condensins and/or CENP-A insufficiency produced a specific kinetochore defect, such that a functional mitotic checkpoint cannot prevent chromosome missegregation resulting from improper attachment of sister kinetochores to spindle microtubules.
"Maybe the most damage that was done to me as a kid was that it was somehow an indecency, an insufficiency, certainly a shame not to be white".
The use of the term "stress fracture" relieves the radiologist from committing himself to a more specific diagnosis of a fatigue or an insufficiency fracture.
The differentiation between a fatigue and an insufficiency fracture is not always easy, as both can occur at the same time in the same patient and fatigue as well as insufficiency can contribute to any fracture.
First, an initial hyperglycaemia, revealing an insufficiency of the pancreas to secrete adequate amounts of insulin, was paralleled by a dramatic dephosphorylation of FOXO1.
Germany represents an excess of order, Spain an insufficiency.
Everybody accepts now the fragmentation of the railway system ended up in a situation where there was just an insufficiency of co-ordination.
Angiogenic therapy with vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has been proposed as a treatment paradigm for patients suffering from an insufficiency of collateral vessels.
Jack Burden suffers from an insufficiency of ego and finds himself in thrall to a bully.
Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disease characterized by high blood glucose caused by an insufficiency of the pancreas to produce insulin, hyperglucagonemia and impaired insulin sensitivity.
Eventually the pancreatic cells may wear out, causing an insufficiency of insulin that resembles Type 1 diabetes.
