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

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physical handicap

He had spent years overcoming an enormous physical handicap.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2021

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 ● Jan. 22, 2020

Ms. Netrebko maintains, however, that her character’s blindness is nothing more than a physical handicap and that the only thing represented by roses is — roses.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2015

Like Che, who grew up in a middle-class Buenos Aires family and was asthmatic, Pablo is citified, deracinated and afflicted with a physical handicap: poor sight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her physical handicap prevented her doing many things she could otherwise have done, she was compelled to work at the hardest jobs, and had to see her children grow up without schooling.

From Adventures in the Land of Canaan by Berry, Robert Lee