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mental retardation

NOUN
  1. lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

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  • Studies of family, twin and Foster child reveal that genetic factors play an important role in the etiological complex of mental retardation.
  • In 1955 he also isolated the virus which causes cytomegalic inclusion disease in infants and, after working for five years on these diseases, he was able to show that the human foetus, while it is in the uterus, is particularly susceptible to attack by these viruses and that, if the foetus survives attack by them, the infant is often born with severe damage to its brain which causes mental retardation and cerebral palsy. Thomas H. Weller - Biography
  • For most, the worst symptom is a cold sore, but in some individuals, the virus causes inflammation of the brain that can lead to mental retardation, epilepsy, or death.
  • Excerpt: The term mental retardation was supposed to be an improvement. Archive 2007-01-01
  • In another essay, he presents the character as a symbol of the mental retardation of our society.
  • Patients with the myotonic dystrophy type 1 exhibit cognitive and behavioral abnormalities including mental retardation, visuo-spatial memory deficits, apathy, anxiety, hypersomnolence, autism, depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Just over 5 percent of federal employees are disabled and less than 1 percent are people with targeted disabilities -- defined as deafness, blindness, mental retardation, dwarfism and paraplegia, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Kudos to federal workers helping a deaf colleague
  • I suggest CNN next run a segment entitled: “Mental retardation, is it necessary to host a cable television ‘news’ program?” Think Progress » In Quest For ‘Hard News,’ CNN Investigates: ‘Homosexuality, Is It A Problem In Need Of A Cure?’
  • Figure small head, or small top part of head microcephalia (small brain) mental retardation none of above developmental delay for other reasons does not suck well or chokes on milk or food 1) Head Control and Use of Senses
  • The term "idiocracy" means a nation run by idiots - and the term idiot is defined as "an utterly foolish or senseless person" and/or a "person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old. David Sirota: How the Media's Proud Know-Nothingism Helped Create the American Idiocracy
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