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mental impairment

noun

  1. law (in England, according to the Mental Health Act 1983) a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind, which includes significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning and is associated with abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct


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Derived Forms

  • mentally impaired, adjective

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Example Sentences

He tried the junior year with a like result, and from this time exhibited more pronounced indications of mental impairment.

Even recurrent attacks, however, leave behind them little if any mental impairment.

Its distribution is thus nearly always hemiplegic, and it is often associated with more or less mental impairment.

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