mental deficiency

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psychiatry a less common term for mental retardation

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Words nearby mental deficiency

mental, mental age, mental artery, mental block, mental cruelty, mental deficiency, mental disease, mental disorder, mentalese, mental foramen, mental handicap

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Few reports of his mental illness discuss lead poisoning as a possible reason for his mental deterioration.
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They take home mental baggage unlike anything carried in almost every other job.
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He suggested I needed mental help, and offered to help me transfer to another college.
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And this college course I have sketched should, in the modern state, pass insensibly into adult mental activities.
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It makes out of the savage raw material which is our basal mental stuff, a citizen.
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To make the effort of articulation a vital impulse in response to a mental concept,—this is the object sought.
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The two enjoyed a mutual understanding from which he was excluded, a private intimacy that was spiritual, mental,— physical.
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He took mental inventory of his possessions and what he could lay claim to, and he happened to think about his wife's homestead.
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