All over the place you find a population that suffers from malnutrition and has severely deficient immune systems.

Any definition of ethics and civility that includes refraining from jaywalking but not a commitment to decent educational opportunities for all the city's children is severely deficient.

Despite the good intentions, efforts, and limited success of the Bureau, medical treatment of the freedmen was severely deficient.

Women who are time poor are severely deficient in the play capability.

Reindeer is a natural source of meat protein in a country severely deficient in such commodities.

Trade was necessary because the Soviet Union's domestic production of fodder crops was severely deficient.

Fetuses and infants of severely copper deficient women have increased risk of low birth weights, muscle weaknesses, and neurological problems.

When treated with GH, a severely deficient child will begin to grow faster within months.

To avoid the window tax many were either devoid or severely deficient in natural light.

Little except the cost of treating severely deficient children is controversial, and most children with severe growth hormone deficiency in the developed world are offered treatment.