Sentence examples for mental defects from inspiring English sources

Again, the condition is accompanied by physical abnormalities and sometimes by mental defects.

Excessive height and various mental defects often accompany this condition, for, of course, each chromosome carries genes for a variety of characteristics.

Sinatra repeatedly said on draft forms that he had "no physical or mental defects or diseases," as he wrote on one.

Mr. Whitaker, who did not respond to telephone calls and e-mail messages requesting comment, testified that even people with severe mental defects could legally execute a will if they understood what they were doing when they signed it.

Congenital toxoplasmosis may result in stillbirth or abortion; infected infants may show various symptoms including jaundice, encephalitis, mental defects, and eye disease.

Those chosen as Vestal Virgins had to be of the required age, be freeborn of freeborn and respectable parents (though later the daughters of freedmen were eligible), have both parents alive, and be free from physical and mental defects.

The neuropsychologists say it's because Parkinson's patients share a mental defect of some kind.

Twelve states would not issue a marriage license if one partner was a drunk, an addict or a "mental defect".

Is it healthy skepticism or an unhealthy mental defect that makes it hard for me to take some of this seriously?

In 1938, Penrose published the results of his work in "A Clinical and Genetic Study of 1,280 Cases of Mental Defect".

But they say they ultimately asked a psychiatrist to examine Mr. Tulloch and "that psychiatrist has now indicated that Robert does suffer from a severe mental defect or disease and that his acts were the direct result of the mental defect or disease".