mental retardation

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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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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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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British Dictionary definitions for mental retardation

mental retardation

noun

psychiatry the condition of having a low intelligence quotient (below 70)

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Medical definitions for mental retardation

mental retardation

Subnormal intellectual development or functioning that is the result of congenital causes, brain injury, or disease and is characterized by any of various deficiencies, ranging from impaired learning ability to social and vocational inadequacy.mental deficiency

Scientific definitions for mental retardation

mental retardation

Below-average intellectual ability resulting from a genetic defect, brain injury, or disease, and usually present from birth or early infancy.

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