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adjective

of or pertaining to the mind: mental powers; mental suffering.

of, pertaining to, or affected by a disorder of the mind: a mental patient; mental illness.

providing care for persons with disordered minds, emotions, etc.: a mental hospital.

performed by or existing in the mind: mental arithmetic; a mental note.

pertaining to intellectuals or intellectual activity.

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Informal. slightly daft; out of one's mind; crazy: He's mental.

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noun

Informal. a person with a psychological disorder: a fascist group made up largely of mentals.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Late Latin mentālis, equivalent to Latin ment- (stem of mēns) mind + -ālis -al¹

Example Sentences

The idea remains controversial: managing a severe mental illness is more complicated than simply avoiding certain behaviors.

Knowledge of mental health issues that impact behavior.

Mental health care costs money, and too few of us want to pay any taxes to address the sorry lack of it.

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The idea remains controversial: managing a severe mental illness is more complicated than simply avoiding certain behaviors.

Knowledge of mental health issues that impact behavior.

Mental health care costs money, and too few of us want to pay any taxes to address the sorry lack of it.

We respond daily to situations that call upon our use of mental maps.

The so-called doomsday algorithm uses clever mental arithmetic and mnemonic tricks to enable a quick determination.

Also features extensive exhibits on the history of the treatment of mental illness.

Iodine, a mineral essential for proper thyroid functioning and mental development, may be added too.

Researchers who study the brain's perception of time have previously proposed several ways our mental clock might work.

Across the country, people with severe mental illness live what appear to be normal, successful lives.

Depression is a physiologically based medical disorder which also has mental ramifications.

If that turns out to be so, it will affect the understanding and treatment of mental illness.

Children's mental development can be impaired by low-level exposure to lead.

Pregnancy and childbirth shape a woman's mental makeover.

For example, monkeys have shown signs of self-monitoring on mental tasks even though they fail the mirror test.

Babies also flex their mental muscles months before birth.

But athletes themselves have long insisted that mental factors are paramount.

Companies are now also starting to touch on a potentially troubling area: their employees' mental health.

Just how easily new mental skills can evolve is perhaps best illustrated by dogs.

Teaching an old person new tricks may be the key to staving off their mental decline.

Second, increasing autism rates correlate with decreasing of other mental diseases/disorders.

But this pat explanation obscures a lingering paradox of depression, which is that the mental illness is extremely common.

Readers respond to an article mental health care at colleges.

Crohn's disease, high blood pressure and several mental disorders.

As with all hallucinogenic substances, there can be some risk to your mental health.

The evidence is mounting: mental illness might be caused by microbes.

Ritualistic gatherings sharpened mental focus, he argues.

Researchers have found a telltale mental signature that predicts whether an experience will be remembered.

As a result, many military spouses and children are experiencing their own mental health issues.

Many of those on death row suffer from serious mental illness, and some of these are on medication.

In humans, anorexia athletica can be a fatal mental disorder that makes its sufferers compulsively exercise to lose weight.

The researchers measured several indices of mental health.

There is moreover the constant risk of arrest and death, not to mention physical and mental harm.

Test subjects reported that periodic small shots made them feel clearheaded and calm, both of which enhance mental performance.

Mental health insurance parity raises all sorts of tricky questions.

Fame only made dealing with her mental illness that much more stressful and put her under more pressure.

Psychosurgery is a treatment of last resort reserved for those persons whose mental illness is resistant to standard treatments.

His photographs have been compared to film noir, with their intense focus on the mental state of their protagonists.

Rumors spread that the music itself could cause mental illness.

All that mental juggling, as one speaker called it, appears to be a good thing for the brain.

The pictures and the mental imagery is too valuable.

The other was about leveraging mental toughness to transcend physical ailments and blustery wind.

If you want to get a mental health license that's another.

Readers respond to a recent article on mental health care for the elderly.

For those of us who deal with severe mental illness, this raises the issue of stigma again.

Most suffer from drug or alcohol addiction, mental illness or both.

Then they watch videos, draw mental maps, and make connections between their maps and how.

Experience may contribute to mental illness in a surprising way: by causing.

But critics say the mental health industry would do well to slow down.

Every mental health professional knows that some schizophrenics can be dangerous, to themselves and to others.

There are four times as many mentally ill people in prison as in mental hospitals.

The mental maps of expedition members could not prepare.

Each of them concerns the relationship between physical health and mental health.

It might unlock the mental prisons of people apparently in comas, who nevertheless show some signs of neural activity.

Scientists say that the brain chemistry of infatuation is akin to mental illness-which gives new meaning to.

More evidence for the long-suspected physiological link between inventiveness and mental illness.

The person in question is bipolar and her cleanliness often corresponded directly with her mental state.

Traumatic therapies can have long-lasting effects on mental health.

Some studies have reported that mental exercise can slow or reverse cognitive decline.

Caffeine consumption appears to have no effect on mental sharpness in older men, a new study suggests.

Provide her with a mental script of a response to a bully.

But keeping track of who to groom-and why-demands quite a bit of mental computation.

Many studies seem to link both mental and physical exercise to a well-oiled memory and less severe age-related decline.

Although these mental changes fall short of clinical diagnosis of mental disorder, they may set the stage for later problems.

He leaves behind a widely known, but no longer widely used, test for diagnosing mental illness with inkblots.

Counseling centers are seeing higher rates of students suffering from serious mental illness.

Just because the majority of people survive childhood trauma and don't develop mental illness doesn't mean.

Politicians should concentrate on maximising the mental health of their voters, rather than the size of their pay cheques.

The sight of a farmwife waltzing with her geese reset my mental clock to another era.

Two scientists suggest that depression is not a malfunction, but a mental adaptation that brings certain cognitive advantages.

Excelling at any sport requires physical and mental discipline.

Prolonged physical exertion is known to damage muscles, weaken the immune system and reduce mental focus.

Berwid, the mental patient charged with murdering his estranged wife here four months ago, was found incompetent today to.

Fogel said his wife had been treated for mental illness for many years.

These stores really do become fixtures in our mental landscapes.

Many of them had suffered long periods of mental trauma during their early marriages.

Survey shows that profound mental changes induced by psilocybin have lasted for more than a year.

Activists say confinements in mental hospitals appear to be rising as authorities feel pressure to quell social unrest.

My dream job would be to counsel and advise students at the college level in both academic and mental health problems.

Mental frailty is much scarier for the sufferer and more demanding for those who have to look after him.

Its philosophies are being applied to mental and physical health therapies and to political and environmental reforms.

Computerized mental workouts don't boost mental skills, study claims.

The awareness of your mental and emotional stage is the key for liberation from the extreme ups and downs.

We have been wildly erratic in our approach to deviance, mental health and the prison.

About half of the respondents said they had learning disabilities, and a quarter said they had mental disabilities.

Such information can help reveal the mental state of an air-traffic controller, for example.

Matsuzawa, a pioneer in studying the mental abilities of chimps, said even he was surprised.

Correcting this mental reflection can help sufferers recover.

But for a one-minute mental vacation to a favorite memory, it was a bargain.

Having turned over his mental life to a computerized system, he refuses to be pushed around by random inputs and requests.

Teenagers with mental illnesses struggle in their transition from high school to college.

Research about educators who maintain positive mental health indicates that they have found ways to balance work and play.

Encourage students to use descriptive words to share their mental imagery.

It is a shame that poor taste and mental illness cannot so easily be cured.

The haze mentioned earlier describes both the weather and my mental state.

Research to limit mental fatigue among soldiers may foster controversial ways to enhance any person's brain.

In humans, soil consumption-or geophagy-has often been viewed as a sign of metabolic disorder or even mental illness.

The discovery could lead to better brain studies and eventually shed light on why our mental geography includes an uncanny valley.

Although human mothers tend to complain of lost mental sharpness, recent animal studies suggest that.

Some animals are able to find their way home by memorizing landmarks and plotting a mental map of the local area.

New regions of the genome can now be plumbed in the search for new therapies for the mysterious mental disorder.

Tell them to use both the author's words and the photos to create mental pictures of what the text is describing.

But that won't stop us from trying to enhance mental functioning.

In other studies, older men were more likely to father children with mental illness or other deficits.

But after prolonged stress, the mental picture isn't pretty.

Our mental maps of risk and safety rely too heavily on imaginary boundaries.

When smokers satisfy their urge for a cigarette, they dampen their mental resistance to addiction.

The jury's out on whether animals can initiate long-lasting improvements in mental health.

Each of us has a rich inner mental life, one that seems inaccessible to everyone else.

In many cases, such prescriptions are the only mental health care.

The case for strep throat-induced mental illness grows stronger.

Perhaps depression is not a malfunction but a mental adaptation that focuses the mind to better solve complex problems.

Our malleable minds take well to proper mental care and feeding.

Writing in a diary about a bad situation can help bring about a happy resolution--and maybe even improve your mental health.

Also, the example of the chimpanzee proves how lack of relationships affects mental stability.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

adjective

of or pertaining to the chin.

Origin:
1720–30; < Latin ment(um) the chin (see mentum) + -al¹

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World English Dictionary

mental¹ (ˈmɛnt^əl)

—*adj*
1.	of or involving the mind or an intellectual process
2.	occurring only in the mind: mental calculations
3.	Preferred form: psychiatric affected by mental illness: a mental patient
4.	Preferred form: psychiatric concerned with care for persons with mental illness: a mental hospital
5.	slang insane

[C15: from Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns mind]

'mentally¹

—*adv*

mental² (ˈmɛnt^əl)

—*adj*
	anatomy Also: genial of or relating to the chin

[C18: from Latin mentum chin]

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Word Origin & History

mental

early 15c., from M.Fr. mental, from L.L. mentalis "of the mind," from L. mens (gen. mentis) "mind," from PIE base *men- "to think" (cf. Skt. matih "thought, mind," Goth. gamunds, O.E. gemynd "memory, remembrance," Mod.Eng. mind). Meaning "crazy, deranged" is from 1927.

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

mental men·tal¹ (měn'tl)
adj.

Of or relating to the mind; intellectual.
Of, relating to, or affected by a disorder of the mind.
Intended for treatment of people affected with disorders of the mind.

mental ²
adj.
Of or relating to the chin.

Slang Dictionary

mental definition

mod.
mentally retarded. (Usually objectionable. Derogatory.) : The girl's mental. Leave her alone.
n.
a mentally retarded person. (Usually objectionable. Derogatory.) : He's a mental. He'll need some help.
n.
a stupid person. : You're such a mental lately.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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