mental handicap

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a general or specific intellectual disability, resulting directly or indirectly from injury to the brain or from abnormal neurological development

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Derived forms of mental handicap

mentally handicapped, adjective

usage for mental handicap

Nowadays both mental handicap and mentally handicapped are considered to have inappropriate and negative connotations. The phrases learning difficulties and a person with learning difficulties are used instead

Words nearby mental handicap

mental deficiency, mental disease, mental disorder, mentalese, mental foramen, mental handicap, mental healing, mental health, mental home, mental hospital, mental hygiene

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Example sentences from the Web for mental handicap

In the classic skillset of piloting, mental acuity, and its coordination with hand and foot movements, is equally vital.
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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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“Lack of forward firing ordnance in a CAS supporting aircraft is a major handicap,” he added.
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They take home mental baggage unlike anything carried in almost every other job.
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“We all need to take care of our own mental health,” Darden said.
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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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