mental retardation in English

noun

condition in which the intellect does not develop normally

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1. What does Amentia mean? Mental retardation

2. Results In Ankang experimental station, these mental retardation population caused by non-specific mental retardation and endemic sub-clinical cretinism, have heritability of

3. [Problems in the Assortedness of marriages in mental retardation]

4. Trisomy 21 is a congenital defect causing mental retardation.

5. The disorder has also been associated with mild mental retardation.

6. Amentia definition, lack of intellectual development; imbecility; severe mental retardation

7. Compulsions in adults with mental retardation: Prevalence, phenomenology, and comorbidity with stereotypy and self-injury: American Journal on Mental Retardation Vol 100(2) Sep 1995, 183-192

8. Amentia: [ a-men´shah ] former term for profound mental retardation.

9. In some cases, there is also mental retardation and soft-tissue calcifications.

10. Ohio uses local boards to manage its outpatient mental health and mental retardation services.

11. Excessive drinking during pregnancy can cause mental retardation and physical problems with the child.

12. Iodine deficiency disorders will lead to goiter hypothyroidism , mental retardation, cretinism, and so on.

13. Psychology The state or condition of being an imbecile; moderate or severe mental retardation.

14. Those born with it can develop mental retardation, epilepsy and blindness - sometimes years later.

15. Yet even people with severe mental retardation show a high level of curiosity in certain circumstances.

16. Such lipid accumulation frequently leads to mental retardation or progressive loss of central nervous system functions.

17. Parental Interactions with Children with and without Mental Retardation: Behavior Management, Coerciveness, and Positive Exchange

18. We observed an overall correlation between the frequency of malocclusions and severity of mental retardation.

19. It is the most common cause of preventable mental retardation, including low IQ (intelligence quotient).

20. The WAGR syndrome is a combination of Wilms’ tumor, aniridia, genitourinary anomalies, and mental retardation.

21. This is the first Horse Riding program in China. To help the autism and Mental retardation.

22. The phenotype includes dysmorphic features, mental retardation, speech delay, signs of peripheral neuropathy, and neurobehavioral problems.

23. Cretinism is a condition arising from the deficiency of thyroid hormone, which causes dwarfism and mental retardation

24. Aversion therapy has been used to modify behavior in people with mental retardation, but this is not common nowadays

25. In this sense the world would be a better place without mental retardation, madness, and senile dementia.

26. Patients with Williams-Beuren-Syndrome characterized by the combination of typical morphology, supravalvular aortic stenosis and mental retardation.

27. All these children came to our clinic with a diagnosis of autism, attention deficit disorder, mental retardation, language problems.

28. Cretinism is a condition arising from the deficiency of a thyroid hormone, which causes dwarfism and mental retardation

29. Amentia Subnormal development of the mind, with particular reference to intellectual capacities; a type of severe mental retardation

30. If an accumulation of galactose occurs, severe liver damage, kidney deformity, mental retardation, hypoglycemia, and even cataracts can result.

31. Mental retardation (MR) – a generalized disorder appearing before adulthood, characterized by significantly impaired cognitive functioning and deficits in two or more adaptive behaviors.

32. Congenital muscular dystrophy with Adducted thumbs, ptosis, external ophthalmoplegia, mental retardation and cerebellar hypoplasia: a novel form of CMD Neuromuscul Disord

33. Results Most of pyromania with mental disorder were male youth. The common type of mental disorders are schizophrenia, mental retardation and personality disorder successively.

34. Synonyms: Backwardness; mental retardation; retardation; slowness; subnormality Hypernyms ("Backwardness" is a kind of): stupidity (a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience)

35. And indeed the Court this time held that executions of persons with mental retardation did violate the Eighth Amendment's proscriptions against cruel and unusual punishment.

36. Cretinism A condition caused by thyroid underaction from severe iodine deficiency early in life. It features dwarfism, mental retardation, dry skin, a large tongue and a puffy face

37. The Autisms, written by Mary Coleman and Christopher Gillberg, demonstrates that autism, like mental retardation, is a clinical presentation of numerous different diseases, many with genomic underpinnings.

38. Stereotypic movement disorders (SMD) such as head-Banging, which are common among children with mental retardation or pervasive developmental disorders, may also occur in intellectually normal adults

39. For most, the worst symptom is a cold sore, but in some individuals, the virus causes inflammation of the brain that can lead to mental retardation, epilepsy, or death.

40. Children who are infected with rubella before birth are at risk for growth retardation ; mental retardation ; malformations of the heart and eyes ; deafness ; and liver , spleen , and bone marrow problems .

41. The partial trisomy 10q of the proband had induced mental retardation, severe retardation of growth, ocular anomalies, agenesis of the palate, low implantation of the ears, micrognathia bone anomalies and cardiac malformation.

42. Cretinism: A congenital condition caused by a deficiency of thyroid hormone during prenatal development and characterized in childhood by dwarfed stature, mental retardation, dystrophy of the bones, and a low basal metabolism.

43. If any -- those of you who are older in the audience know that when I was a child we understood that a child born with a cleft palate was born with what we called mental retardation.

44. Choanal Atresia may be associated with various other anomalies, CHARGE syndrome is the most common of these and consists of coloboma, heart disease, Atresia choanae, growth, and mental retardation, genital hypoplasia, and ear anomalies

45. The cardinal symptoms seen in classic homocystinuria are mental retardation, osteoporosis, myopia, and lens luxation. Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency may present with psychomotor retardation, epilepsy, brain atrophy. Errors of Cbl metabolism account for metabolic crisis with methylmalonic acidemia.

46. Diseases associated with Cask include Mental Retardation And Microcephaly With Pontine And Cerebellar Hypoplasia and Fg Syndrome 4.Among its related pathways are Neuroscience and Neurotransmitter Release Cycle.Gene Ontology (GO) annotations related to this gene include transferase activity, …

47. The key difference between dwarfism and Cretinism is that dwarfism refers to a condition of growth retardation that causes an abnormally short adult stature while Cretinism is a condition arising from the deficiency of thyroid hormone, which causes dwarfism and mental retardation.

48. Cretin Congenital hypothyroidism Endocrinology A person with defective thyroxine or thyroglobulin synthesis Etiology Goiter, iodine deficiency in the mother while pregnant; thyroid gland defects–aplasia, hypoplasia or dysgenesis Clinical Cold intolerance, serosal effusions, myxedema, ↓ metabolic rate, ↑ cholesterol, profound mental retardation–hypothyroid idiocy, ↓ growth.

49. Developmental Program Bulletins - Supplemental Grant Agreement: Office of Developmental Programs: DHS Bulletin : 00-00-03 attachment 2: SUPPLEMENTAL GRANT CONDITIONS: Office of Developmental Programs: DHS Bulletin : 00-00-04: Guidelines for Identifying Persons with Mental Retardation and Mental Illness for State Mental Health Hospital Discharge

50. Anoesia (s) (noun), Anoesias (pl) An extreme form or diagnosis of mental retardation: As a result of Van's brain damage after the automobile accident, he had a condition known as Anoesia which required twenty-four hour nursing care. anoesis (s) (noun), anoeses (pl) 1.