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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abnormal shortage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is an unusual or unexpected lack of something, such as resources or supplies.
Example: "The region is facing an abnormal shortage of clean drinking water due to the prolonged drought."
Alternatives: "unusual scarcity" or "unexpected deficit".
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Assurance of some internationally controlled supplies to meet abnormal shortages that might occur in a bad year; and 3. Generation of adequate purchasing power for developing countires to finance needed imports.
We propose that the accumulation of abnormal metabolites or shortage of isoprenoids might predispose patients to idiopathic inflammation of the skin, and that correction of the abnormal isoprenoid biosynthesis might be a novel therapeutic direction for PK.
RAP prepared a technical paper on "Coping with local food shortage caused by abnormal weatherFood Supply and Demand Information Exchange Systems" for an International Symposium held in Tokyo.
Mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD) is due to mutations in the MVK gene, encoding the second enzyme of mevalonate pathway, which results in abnormal enzymatic activity and subsequent shortage of downstream compounds, as serum cholesterol [ 20].
Staff shortage is surely an abnormal situation which can threaten the operation, safety, and reputation of a hospital (see definition above), but the sudden and unforeseeable character, which is typical for many crises, is not the case here.
Besides short supply and abnormal demand for grain in Europe, a rice shortage in Asia means wheat and other grains will have to be substituted".
They have already demonstrated that it leads to the same development as in untransplanted fertilised eggs (although due to a shortage of healthy egg donors this research has only been conducted in already abnormal – and therefore spare – fertilised eggs).
Because of the shortage of health institutions, if all such laboring mothers, who were believed to be abnormal, were referred, the busy referral hospital would become even busier.
Unlike the shortage of air traffic controllers, however, the lack of TSA personnel has not led to abnormal delays.
Abnormal behaviour.
Fabric shortage.
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