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Mental Retardation
( anesia,
anoesia,
anoia,
arrhostia,
asynesia,
cerebria chronica,
defect psychosis,
feeblemindedness,
hypophrenia,
hypophrenosis,
imbecillitas,
intellectual inadequacy,
mental deficiency,
mental handicap,
micropsychia,
oligergasia,
oligophrenia,
phrenasthenia,
psychoparesis
)
This mental disorder is diagnosed in individuals who, from whatever cause, have intelligence below an arbitrary level beginning before adulthood and whose adaptive functioning is impaired in any of a variety of areas.
Diagnostic criteria for Mental Retardation (Obsolete)