Sentence examples similar to deep mental deficiency from inspiring English sources

Laws were passed excluding immigrants with a criminal past, a mental deficiency, or a communicable disease.

People who knew her said that they never noticed any signs of mental deficiency.

In summary, there is no evidence of a psychosis or mental deficiency at the present time.

Nor was she surprised by the fact that some pupils equate facial disfigurement with mental deficiency.

Morel saw mental deficiency as the end stage of a process of mental degeneration that included mental illness.

Only in a rare disease called lissencephaly ("smooth brain") is a lack of complex brain folding linked to mental deficiency.

In America, and in New York City particularly, boys then were, as Gould writes, 'baseball nuts, barring mental deficiency or incomprehensible idiosyncrasy.

He hoped that his work would take the field of mental deficiency far beyond the simplicities of mainline eugenics.

But he also suffered from deep mental disabilities.

The few cases supported in the courts have been those of border-line mental deficiency (usually after some delinquency).

But Dr. Pike doesn't think a lack of animal imagery marks a mental deficiency in Neanderthals.