Medical term:
feeblemindedness
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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