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That same year, the festival circuit saw a markedly similar film structured around deaf-mutism – albeit to slightly lesser results, the Antz to Don’t Breathe’s A Bug’s Life.

From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2018

But so-called congenital deaf-mutism is actually a misnomer because inborn defects of the vocal cords that make speech impossible are almost unknown.

From Time Magazine Archive

The same may be said of feigned insanity, aphonia, deaf-mutism, and loss of memory.

From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )

Some attention has been given to the study of effects upon mentality and personality of physical defects such as deaf-mutism and blindness.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

In fact we are tempted to jump at the conclusion that consanguinity is in itself a cause of deaf-mutism.

From Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population by Arner, George B. Louis