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mental deficiency

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noun

psychiatry a less common term for mental retardation

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Words related to mental deficiency

retardation, idiocy, abnormality, slowness, dementia, amentia

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mental, mental age, mental artery, mental block, mental cruelty, mental deficiency, mental disease, mental disorder, mental foramen, mental handicap, mental healing
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Medicine definitions for mental deficiency

mental deficiency

n.

mental retardation
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