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mental impairment
noun
- 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.
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Even recurrent attacks, however, leave behind them little if any mental impairment.
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Its distribution is thus nearly always hemiplegic, and it is often associated with more or less mental impairment.
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