欠けっ失しつ

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

deficiency; lack; absence

General term for something being missing or insufficient. Used as a noun or with する to mean 'to be missing' or 'to be deficient'.

• この報ほう告こく書しょには重じゅう要ようなデータの欠けっ失しつがある。

  This report has a deficiency of important data.

• ビタミンが欠けっ失しつすると健けん康こうに悪あく影えい響きょうが出でる。

  A lack of vitamins negatively affects health.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

deletion; gene deletion; deletion mutation

Technical term in genetics for the loss of a segment of DNA. Also used as a noun or with する.

• この遺い伝でん子しの欠けっ失しつが病びょう気きの原げん因いんと考かんがえられている。

  Deletion of this gene is thought to be the cause of the disease.