mental deficiency — n MENTAL RETARDATION * * * see mental retardation * * * see under retardation … Medical dictionary
mental deficiency — n. former term for MENTAL RETARDATION * * * … Universalium
mental deficiency — n. former term for MENTAL RETARDATION … English World dictionary
mental deficiency — noun mild mental retardation • Syn: ↑moronity • Hypernyms: ↑retardation, ↑mental retardation, ↑backwardness, ↑slowness, ↑subnormality * * * noun : failure i … Useful english dictionary
mental deficiency — mental defect, mental retardation, flaw of intelligence … English contemporary 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
mental deficiency — noun Date: 1856 mental retardation … New Collegiate Dictionary
mental deficiency — noun dated the condition of having a mental disability … English new terms dictionary
mental deficiency — an obsolete term for mental retardation … The new mediacal dictionary
mental deficiency — men tal defi′ciency n. psi (no longer in technical use) mental retardation … From formal English to slang