failure
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈfeɪljər/
- Specialized
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insuficiencia
- The patient with heart failure should be a partner in their own care.
- heart failure
- congestive heart failure
- renal failure
It's just a massive failure of it's a colossal failure of everything electric.
- It's just a massive failure of it's a colossal failure of everything electric.
- Lots of those have a medium failure rate in them.
- There are places where there were clear, there were clear failures of the system.
- And then she developed failure of all of her organs and she died.
- But this isn't just some architectural failure on AM DS part.
- They are really devastating diseases, bone marrow failure and lung diseases.
- They had three to four times more mid air failures than other airlines.
- Some organ failures, which sometimes happens in cats.
- And when when things are centralized, you, you create single points of failure in any system.
- I don't like stuff that gets super hot because it's failure mode is could be awful.
Examples
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Trust me, hard drive failure can lead to significant data loss.
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Blood gas analysis is essential for the diagnosis of respiratory failure and for differentiating between:
Academic text (2011) -
And then she developed failure of all of her organs and she died.
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Trust me guys, hard drive failure sucks.
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Over 70% of all product failures are directly attributable to just this sort of problem.
Academic text (2008) -
Regular multidisciplinary review of patients with heart failure improves morbidity and mortality.
Academic text (2011) -
The three cardinal symptoms of heart failure are dyspnea, edema, and fatigue.
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Some of the test subjects have died of failure due to liver problems.
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Heavy drinkers are at risk of heart failure because of increased blood pressure.
Synonyms
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4.4
A failure in a system or relationship that stops it working properly
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6.1
A problem in the way a body part, system, or group works
69
3.2
A problem in a machine or system that makes it not work
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4.7
Something that fails to work or please people
4
7.9
A part of the body not working well enough to do its job
A situation when a machine or system cannot work as it should
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.0
A condition when the heart cannot pump enough blood around the body
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3.0
A condition when the kidneys stop working and cannot remove waste or keep water and salts in balance
- Specialized
10
3.5
A condition in which the heart cannot pump blood well, causing fluid to build up in the body
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9
3.9
A serious condition where the kidneys stop removing waste and balancing body fluids
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1
4.1
A long-term condition in which the kidneys slowly stop working well
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1
4.2
A sudden loss of the kidneys' ability to remove waste from the blood
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1
5.1
A sudden severe loss of kidney function caused by injury or infection
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The heart and blood vessels cannot send enough blood to the parts of the body
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Long-term loss of kidney function that makes waste build up in the body
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A condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood for the body
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Money a company loses when faulty products reach customers, for example from returns or repairs
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Money a company loses when faulty products or services cause problems for customers and the company
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Costs a company pays when it finds and fixes or throws away defective products before they reach customers
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Failure comes from the old verb fail, which meant 'to be lacking' or 'to stop working'. So in medicine and machines, failure means a part or organ 'stops working' and cannot do its job.