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Mental retardation — Classification and external resources ICD 10 F70 F … Wikipedia
mental retardation — n. a condition, usually present from birth, characterized by intellectual functioning that is below average: it ranges in degree from borderline (IQ of 71 84) to mild (IQ of 50 55 to approximately 70) to moderate (IQ of 35 40 to 50 55) to severe… … English World dictionary
Mental retardation — A term used when a person has certain limitations in mental functioning and in skills such as communicating, taking care of him or herself, and social skills. These limitations will cause a child to learn and develop more slowly than a typical… … Medical dictionary
mental retardation — a developmental disorder characterized by a subnormal ability to learn and a substantially low IQ. [1900 15] * * * Subaverage intellectual ability that is present from birth or infancy and is manifested by abnormal development, learning… … Universalium
mental retardation — the state of those whose intellectual powers have failed to develop to such an extent that they are in need of care and protection and require special education. The handicap may be classified according to the intelligence quotient (IQ) as mild… … The new mediacal dictionary
mental deficiency — noun mild mental retardation • Syn: ↑moronity • Hypernyms: ↑retardation, ↑mental retardation, ↑backwardness, ↑slowness, ↑subnormality * * * noun : failure i … Useful english dictionary
retardation — Slowness or limitation of development. intrauterine growth r. SYN: fetal growth restriction. mental r. subaverage general intellectual functioning that originates during the developmental period and is associated with impairment in adaptive… … Medical dictionary
mental deficiency — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, alienation, amentia, arrested development, backwardness, blithering idiocy, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, craziness, cretinism, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement,… … Moby Thesaurus
retardation — Synonyms and related words: afterthought, amentia, arrest, arrestation, arrested development, arrestment, backwardness, bind, blithering idiocy, block, blockage, blocking, bureaucratic delay, check, clogging, closing up, closure, constraint,… … Moby Thesaurus
syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… … Medical dictionary
