different between deficiency vs autoplasty

English

Etymology

From deficit +? -ency. Compare Latin d?ficientia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d?f??sh?ns?, IPA^(key): /d??f???nsi/

Noun

deficiency (countable and uncountable, plural deficiencies)

1. (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
2. (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
3. (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. (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.

Antonyms

• sufficiency
• excess

Translations

Further reading

• deficiency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

auto- +? -plasty

Noun

autoplasty (countable and uncountable, plural autoplasties)

1. (medicine, surgery, dated) The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds. In present-day contexts likelier to be called autotransplantation or autografting.

Related terms

• autoplastic

Translations

References

• autoplasty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.