physical handicap

British  

noun

1. loss of or failure to develop a specific bodily function or functions, whether of movement, sensation, coordination, or speech, but excluding mental impairments or disabilities

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Other Word Forms

• physically handicapped adjective

Example Sentences

Steve Stricker has won a “comeback” award for the third time in his career — back-to-back years on the PGA Tour, and now the Ben Hogan Award from the Golf Writers Association of America for staying active in the wake of a physical handicap or serious injury.

From Seattle Times

He had spent years overcoming an enormous physical handicap.

From Washington Post

You knew someone who wore these shoes because of a physical handicap?

From Washington Post

A defence ministry spokesman told AFP that the soldier had been undergoing tests at a military hospital, which classified the loss of male genitals as a mental or physical handicap.

From BBC

So, at one point, early on in pre-trial proceedings, el-Hage, this person who was a U.S. citizen, whose computer we had seized in Kenya, and who testified in the grand jury a couple of times, wasn’t a large man, and he had a physical handicap.

From MSNBC