mental retardation
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mental retardation
n. Often Offensive
Intellectual disability.
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mental retardation
n
(Psychiatry) psychiatry the condition of having a low intelligence quotient (below 70)
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men′tal retarda′tion
n.
a developmental disorder characterized in varying degrees by a subnormal ability to learn, a substantially low IQ, and impaired social adjustment.
[1900–15]
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mental retardation
Below-average intellectual ability resulting from genetic defect, brain injury, or disease, and usually present from birth or early infancy.
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| Noun | 1. | mental retardation - lack of normal development of intellectual capacities stupidity - a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience mental defectiveness, abnormality - retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence mental deficiency, moronity - mild mental retardation imbecility - retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot |
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