Medical term:

feebleminded



feeble-minded

(fē′bəl-mīn′dĭd)
adj.
1. Deficient in intelligence. No longer in scientific use.
2. Exhibiting a marked lack of intelligent consideration and forethought: a feeble-minded plan doomed to failure.

fee′ble-mind′ed·ly adv.
fee′ble-mind′ed·ness n.
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feeblemindedness

 [fe″b'l-mīnd´ed-nes]
former name for mental retardation, now considered offensive.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

feeblemindedness

An older term for:
(1) Mental retardation; or  
(2) Dementia.

While this term is widely used in “poetic” contexts, especially in classic literature, it is not used in the working medical parlance.
Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.


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