minimal brain dysfunction

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(no longer in technical use) attention deficit disorder.

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All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
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There was a vicious aching in his nerves, his muscles were flaccid and unstrung; a numbness was in his brain as well.
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The anger and rebellion had been comatose in these years of freedom, but the maturer brain was the more uneasy, at times appalled.
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minimal brain dysfunction

[ mĭn′ə-məl ]

Attention deficit disorder. No longer in scientific use.