DEPRIVATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deprivation mean? 

• DEPRIVATION (noun)
  The noun DEPRIVATION has 3 senses:

1. a state of extreme poverty

2. the disadvantage that results from losing something

3. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

  Familiarity information: DEPRIVATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPRIVATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of extreme poverty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

deprivation; neediness; privation; want

Hypernyms ("deprivation" is a kind of...):

impoverishment; poorness; poverty (the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions)

Derivation:

deprive (take away)

deprive (take away possessions from someone)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The disadvantage that results from losing something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

deprivation; loss

Context example:

losing him is no great deprivation

Hypernyms ("deprivation" is a kind of...):

disadvantage (the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

deprivation; privation

Context example:

deprivation of civil rights

Hypernyms ("deprivation" is a kind of...):

social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deprivation"):

impoverishment; pauperisation; pauperization (the act of making someone poor)

starvation; starving (the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine)

Derivation:

deprive (take away)

deprive (keep from having, keeping, or obtaining)

deprive (take away possessions from someone)

 Context examples 

It has also been previously presumed that high polyunsaturated fatty acids levels in the brain were what made it susceptible to oxygen deprivation or brain injury.

(Discovery Challenges Belief about Brain's Cellular Makeup, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"Our analysis precisely reports how effective sleep deprivation is and in which populations it should be administered."

(Sleep Deprivation: Effective Anti-Depressant, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers also found that study participants with larger increases in beta-amyloid reported worse mood after sleep deprivation.

(Lack of sleep may be linked to risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, National Institutes of Health)

Sleep deprivation has also been associated with higher risks of weight gain and obesity.

(Molecular ties between lack of sleep and weight gain, NIH)

Kinases activated by viral infection (PKR), endoplasmic reticulum stress (PERK/PEK), amino acid deprivation (GCN2), and hemin deficiency (HRI) can phosphorylate the a subunit of eIF-2.

(eIF2 Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This allele, which encodes baculoviral IAP repeat-containing protein 3, is involved in apoptotic inhibition by serum deprivation.

(BIRC3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

AVN944 appears to have a selective effect on cancer cells in that deprivation of GTP in normal cells results in a temporary slowing of cell growth only.

(AVN944, NCI Thesaurus)

While the protein's presence or absence in the brain had little effect on sleep recovery, mice with higher levels of BMAL1 in their muscles recovered from sleep deprivation more quickly.

(Muscle, Not Brain, May Hold Answers to Some Sleep Disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The authors say the findings can be used to identify who is most at risk for the negative effects of sleep deprivation, and thus should receive medical assistance to prevent those effects.

(Why Lack of Sleep Affects Some More Than Others, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Oxygen deprivation in newborns, is also known as neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).

(Longer cooling, lower temperature no improvement for infant oxygen deprivation, NIH)